This was the first Internet search engine

In the 1980s This was it Internet Only a fraction of the size it is today. At the time, exchanging data over long distances was commonplace for nerds and nerds. However, the increasing amount of data available online at that time made this necessary at some point It's hard to track. If you want to find something, you need to know exactly where to find it.

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Find websites you didn't know about the first time

Netizens gave Exchanging information about resources verballySometimes books about the early Internet served as sources for learning about what websites actually existed and what could be found on them. The dominant protocol on the Internet at the time was FTP. The problem was one day solved by the first Internet search engine: Archie. It was developed by Alain Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. Archie It revolutionized the Internet And solve the problem of finding the online resources you were looking for.

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Lost program

The software has been purchased by a large number of institutions around the world and runs their own servers, including the University of Vienna. However, in the early 1990s, Archie was replaced by other, more advanced search engines. FTP sites in general are becoming less important. Archie has been forgotten. YouTube channel The Serial Port has now started doing just that Search for the program. But finding a working version of it was very Difficultas reported by Ars Technica.

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Rediscovered and made usable

After a lot of searching and conversations with early internet experts, The Serial Port finally found one Version of ArchieThat gives them The University of Warsaw can provide. The search engine was then painstakingly built on modern infrastructure Got it working again. The revived service can now be accessed again at Archie.serialport.org. The project is an important part of Preserve Internet historyHe succeeded.