It was first developed in 1989 and is the world’s first search engine. Archiewas removed from the dusty shelves of history. The Serial Port YouTube channel named found the software of the search engine, all servers of which were offline, and reactivated it after many years. He started Archie.
‘Last copy’ of software found
Taking its name from the abbreviation of the English word archive Archie It broke new ground when it was developed at a time when the internet was limited. Because it made it possible to search for anonymous FTP servers for the first time on the Internet, which until then had been used only for universities, researchers and military purposes.
In other words, file transfers, which were limited or manual before this search engine, can now be easily done by anyone with access to the internet. With the rise of web-based search engines, people Archie They forgot over time.
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It was replaced by popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo. He thinks that this lost search engine has an important place in the history of the internet and should be preserved. The Serial Port YouTube channel published a video on the subject.
In the video, the team did research to reuse Archie and, after a long effort, reached Archie’s source codes with the help of a system administrator from the University of Warsaw. These codes were probably found on Archie’s website. It was the last copy.
Years later they coached Archie again
After the team found the source codes Archie got it working again successfully. It was also shared publicly. The world’s first search engine You can use Archie by clicking here. You can also access the original source codes here.
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