Archie

Rarity: Common

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At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

2

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing users to more easily identify specific files. It is considered the first Internet search engine. The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, then a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Archie (search engine)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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