![]() Screenshot of Archie | |
Original author(s) | Alan Emtage |
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Developer(s) | Bunyip Information Systems, Inc. |
Initial release | 10 September 1990[1] |
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 |
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in 1990 by Alan Emtage, then a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.[3][4][5][6] Archie was superseded by other, more sophisticated search engines, including Jughead and Veronica, which were search engines for the Gopher protocol. These were in turn superseded by search engines like Yahoo!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]