Archie search engine

Archie is a search engine designed to index FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Peter J. Deutsch, then students at McGill University in Montreal.

The earliest versions of archie simply contacted a list of FTP archives on a regular basis (contacting each roughly once a month, so as not to waste too much resources on the remote servers) and requested a listing. These listings were stored in local files to be searched using the interfaces.

The name derives from the word archive , but is also associated with Archie Comics. This was not originally intended, but it certainly acted as the inspiration for the names of Jughead (computer) and Veronica (computer), both search systems for the Gopher protocol, named after other characters from the same comics.

= See also =

*Jughead (computer) and Veronica (computer) *Wide area information server (WAIS)

= External links =

*[http://groups.google.com/groupsselm=1990Sep11.174506.12376%40math.lsa.umich.edu&output=gplain Original Archie announcement] on USENET