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'''Archie''' is a tool for indexing [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first [[Internet]] [[Search engine (computing)|search engine]].<ref>{{ cite web|title=The First Search Engine, Archie |url=http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/1990archie.htm |access-date=2007-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621141150/http://isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/1990archie.htm |archive-date=21 June 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The original implementation was written in 1990 by [[Alan Emtage]], then a postgraduate student at [[McGill University]] in [[Montreal]].<ref>{{cite web | work = PC Magazine| title = Archie | url = https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/archie | access-date = 2020-09-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author = Alexandra Samuel| title = Meet Alan Emtage, the Black Technologist Who Invented ARCHIE, the First Internet Search Engine| url = https://daily.jstor.org/alan-emtage-first-internet-search-engine/ |publisher= [[ITHAKA]]| access-date = 2020-09-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author = loop news barbados | title = Alan Emtage- a Barbadian you should know| url = http://www.loopnewsbarbados.com/content/alan-emtage-barbadian-you-should-know | publisher= loopnewsbarbados.com|access-date = 2020-09-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author = Dino Grandoni, Alan Emtage | title = Alan Emtage: The Man Who Invented The World's First Search Engine (But Didn't Patent It)| url = https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/alan-emtage-search-engine_n_2994090?ri18n=true&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jb25zZW50LnlhaG9vLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABveQefuoczW_8_bxwbOgluVTUPvIfv5s_OP1jMgUJd8MCwKc148lvXb7HAHXY48P_Be6wXMW0LKlLRfQzJNalLpuwnp7F6NpbyDC2BG10OveS2qtubkO0PhJ8-juP3M2a9K2ygbWuoUhOCvO-1NA6-YQKA8BtdZEcsfUUI_M-8S | work= [[HuffPost]]|access-date = 2020-09-21 }}</ref>
'''Archie''' is a tool for indexing [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first [[Internet]] [[Search engine (computing)|search engine]].<ref>{{ cite web|title=The First Search Engine, Archie |url=http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/1990archie.htm |access-date=2007-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621141150/http://isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/1990archie.htm |archive-date=21 June 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The original implementation was written in 1990 by [[Alan Emtage]], then a postgraduate student at [[McGill University]] in [[Montreal]].<ref>{{cite web | work = PC Magazine| title = Archie | url = https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/archie | access-date = 2020-09-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author = Alexandra Samuel| title = Meet Alan Emtage, the Black Technologist Who Invented ARCHIE, the First Internet Search Engine| url = https://daily.jstor.org/alan-emtage-first-internet-search-engine/ |publisher= [[ITHAKA]]| access-date = 2020-09-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author = loop news barbados | title = Alan Emtage- a Barbadian you should know| url = http://www.loopnewsbarbados.com/content/alan-emtage-barbadian-you-should-know | publisher= loopnewsbarbados.com|access-date = 2020-09-21 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author = Dino Grandoni, Alan Emtage | title = Alan Emtage: The Man Who Invented The World's First Search Engine (But Didn't Patent It)| url = https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/alan-emtage-search-engine_n_2994090?ri18n=true&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jb25zZW50LnlhaG9vLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABveQefuoczW_8_bxwbOgluVTUPvIfv5s_OP1jMgUJd8MCwKc148lvXb7HAHXY48P_Be6wXMW0LKlLRfQzJNalLpuwnp7F6NpbyDC2BG10OveS2qtubkO0PhJ8-juP3M2a9K2ygbWuoUhOCvO-1NA6-YQKA8BtdZEcsfUUI_M-8S | work= [[HuffPost]]|access-date = 2020-09-21 }}</ref>

Archie has been superseded by other search engines, including [[Jughead (search engine)|Jughead]] and [[Veronica (search engine)|Veronica]]. These were in turn were superseded by search engines like [[Yahoo]] in 1995 and [[Google]] in 1997.


==Origin ==
==Origin ==

Revision as of 10:19, 23 January 2021

Archie
Type of site
Web search engine
URLarchie.icm.edu.pl/archie_eng.html
Launched10 September 1990; 33 years ago (1990-09-10)[1]
Current statusOnline[2]

Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine.[3] The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, then a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal.[4][5][6][7]

Archie has been superseded by other search engines, including Jughead and Veronica. These were in turn were superseded by search engines like Yahoo in 1995 and Google in 1997.

Origin

The Archie service began as a project for students and volunteer staff at the McGill University School of Computer Science in 1987,[8] when Peter Deutsch (systems manager for the School),[8] Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan were asked to connect the School to the Internet.[9]

The name derives from the word "archive" without the v. Emtage has said that contrary to popular belief, there was no association with the Archie Comics.[10] Despite this, other early Internet search technologies such as Jughead and Veronica were named after characters from the comics. Anarchie, one of the earliest graphical ftp clients was named for its ability to perform Archie searches.

How Archie worked

Archie was developed as a tool for mass discovery and the concept was simple. The developers populated the engine's servers with databases of anonymous FTP host directories.[11] This was used to find specific file titles since the list was plugged in to a searchable database of FTP sites.[12]

The earliest versions of Archie would simply contact a list of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) sites. FTP is essentially a way to transfer files between computers. When Archie finds a file, it must be downloaded before the contents can be viewed. The lists are updated on a regular basis (contacting each roughly once a month, so as not to waste too many resources of the remote servers) and requested a listing. These listings were stored in local files to be searched using the Unix grep command.

Development

Heelan and Deutsch wrote a script allowing people to log in and search collected information using the Telnet protocol at the host "archie.mcgill.ca" [132.206.2.3].[8] Later, more efficient front- and back-ends were developed, and the system spread from a local tool, to a network-wide resource, and a popular service available from multiple sites around the Internet. The collected data would be exchanged between the neighbouring Archie servers. The servers could be accessed in multiple ways: using a local client (such as archie or xarchie); telnetting to a server directly; sending queries by electronic mail;[13] and later via a World Wide Web interface. At the zenith of its fame the Archie search engine accounted for 50% of Montreal Internet traffic.[citation needed]

In 1992, Emtage along with Deutsch and some financial help of McGill University formed Bunyip Information Systems the world's first company expressly founded for and dedicated to providing Internet information services with a licensed commercial version of the Archie search engine used by millions of people worldwide. Heelan followed them into Bunyip soon after, where he together with Bibi Ali and Sandro Mazzucato was a part of so-called Archie Group. The group significantly updated the archie database and indexed web-pages. Work on the search engine ceased in the late 1990s.

A legacy Archie server is still maintained active for historic purposes in Poland at University of Warsaw's Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling.

See also

References

  1. ^ Deutsch, Peter (11 September 1990). "[next] An Internet archive server server (was about Lisp)". Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  2. ^ Sometimes web search page loads after couple of minutes(!), search still works, although resulting ftp links are most likely dead. Last update of the database: 2011 ([1])
  3. ^ "The First Search Engine, Archie". Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  4. ^ "Archie". PC Magazine. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  5. ^ Alexandra Samuel. "Meet Alan Emtage, the Black Technologist Who Invented ARCHIE, the First Internet Search Engine". ITHAKA. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  6. ^ loop news barbados. "Alan Emtage- a Barbadian you should know". loopnewsbarbados.com. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  7. ^ Dino Grandoni, Alan Emtage. "Alan Emtage: The Man Who Invented The World's First Search Engine (But Didn't Patent It)". HuffPost. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  8. ^ a b c "Peter Deutsch: archie - An Electronic Directory Service for the Internet". Retrieved 23 February 2012.
  9. ^ "Life Before (And After) Archie". Archived from the original on 9 July 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  10. ^ BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, 7 November 2009
  11. ^ West, Nicholas. A Rough Guide to the Internet. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781471005374.
  12. ^ Ledford, Jerri L. (2015). Search Engine Optimization Bible. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. p. 4. ISBN 9780470452646.
  13. ^ "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet - Your Friend Archie". www2.cs.duke.edu. 12 September 1994. Retrieved 8 January 2020.

Further reading

External links

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