Why not link to it? Here we go:
Working online Archie Search Instance
Anyone wants to explain the niceness selector?
Aaaaand it was hugged to death
Cool that Lemmy has enough users to DDOS but darn it, I wanted a hit of nostalgia
A day later, and it’s still too swamped to let me in… I’ll keep trying, though.
Google search so bad now, people are trying Archie again. Funny/sad!
Technology is cyclical
Can we revive Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves?
The future is HotBot, baby!
I was not even using gopher until 92 and did not use a graphical interface to the internet until at least 96 but maybe 97 or 98.
The serial port made a really good video about it recently. This channel is pretty amazing for early internet content.
Used it all the time in the early 90s. Even though the tech was very primitive back then, I miss the academic spirit and open collaborative nature of it all. Corporate greed has really wrecked the open web.
corporate greed has ruined the world
