History of Computers - Archie
--Pflam 09:20, 8 September 2009 (CDT)
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Archie - The First Internet Search Engine
Overview
Archie was created originally in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J. Peter Deutsch. After they had done their work on it, a group of students at the McGill University in Montreal Canada worked on it some more, furthering how it could be used. Archie was originally a service that contaced many FTP servers and asked for their listings, and then stored these listings on local files that could then be searched for using unix commands. Eventually, more convenient user interfaces for this service were created, and it became usable on the World Wide Web. [1]
Significance
Archie's main significance lies in the fact that it began to link the millions of documents that existed on peoples personal computers and private servers together, and making them much simpler to find than searching through every single one. Archie has become widely unused as a service because there are much easier ways to find documents nowadays. Another way that Archie was significant was that it led to the idea of major search engines today like Google, Yahoo , etc.
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References
Links
http://www.isrl.illinois.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/1990archie.htm
