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Finding And Resurrecting Archie: The Internet’s First Search Engine (hackaday.com)
submitted 6 months ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
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[–] Schorsch@feddit.de 13 points 6 months ago

I use Archie btw.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's really cool but I never saw it in a browser, only a boxy green tab controlled thing you accessed via telnet. Also there was a Veronica

[–] plugd@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is still a Veronica! I use it regularly for searching gopherspace.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Oh that's amazing. I'm gonna check it out. Old school internet ftw

[–] emr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

When I search for stuff I don't seem to get anything.