Archie (search engine)

Archie
	Screenshot of Archie
Original author(s)	Alan Emtage
Developer(s)	Bunyip Information Systems, Inc.
Initial release	10 September 1990
Final release	3.5 / 1996
Written in	C
Operating system	Solaris, AIX
Type	Web search engine
Website	bunyip.com/products/archie/ (original product page, archived); archie.serialport.org (online instance)

Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing users to more easily identify specific files. It is considered the first Internet search engine.^[2] The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, then a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] Archie was superseded by other, more sophisticated search engines, including Jughead and Veronica, which were search engines for the Gopher protocol. These were in turn superseded by search engines like Yahoo! in 1995 and Google in 1998. Work on Archie ceased in the late 1990s. A legacy Archie server was maintained for historic purposes in Poland at Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling in the University of Warsaw until 2023.

With assistance from the University of Warsaw, a new Archie server was created and opened for public access at The Serial Port, a web-based computer museum, on 11 May 2024.^[7]^[8]

^ Deutsch, Peter (11 September 1990). "[next] An Internet archive server server (was about Lisp)". Retrieved 29 December 2017.
^ "The First Search Engine, Archie". Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
^ "Archie". PC Magazine. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
^ Alexandra Samuel (21 February 2017). "Meet Alan Emtage, the Black Technologist Who Invented ARCHIE, the First Internet Search Engine". ITHAKA. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
^ loop news barbados (30 August 2019). "Alan Emtage- a Barbadian you should know". loopnewsbarbados.com. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
^ Dino Grandoni, Alan Emtage (April 2013). "Alan Emtage: The Man Who Invented The World's First Search Engine (But Didn't Patent It)". HuffPost. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
^ The Serial Port (11 May 2024). We brought back the Internet's first search engine. YouTube.
^ Purdy, Kevin (16 May 2024). "Archie, the Internet's first search engine, is rescued and running". Ars Technica. Retrieved 17 May 2024.

[1] Deutsch, Peter (11 September 1990). "[next] An Internet archive server server (was about Lisp)". Retrieved 29 December 2017.

[2] "The First Search Engine, Archie". Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2007.

[3] "Archie". PC Magazine. Retrieved 20 September 2020.

[4] Alexandra Samuel (21 February 2017). "Meet Alan Emtage, the Black Technologist Who Invented ARCHIE, the First Internet Search Engine". ITHAKA. Retrieved 20 September 2020.

[5] ws barbados (30 August 2019). "Alan Emtage- a Barbadian you should know". loopnewsbarbados.com. Retrieved 28 April 2022.

[6] Dino Grandoni, Alan Emtage (April 2013). "Alan Emtage: The Man Who Invented The World's First Search Engine (But Didn't Patent It)". HuffPost. Retrieved 21 September 2020.

[7] The Serial Port (11 May 2024). We brought back the Internet's first search engine. YouTube.

[8] Purdy, Kevin (16 May 2024). "Archie, the Internet's first search engine, is rescued and running". Ars Technica. Retrieved 17 May 2024.

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