Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTIL the first Internet search engine was “Archie”, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal. It’s still around todayen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: til@lemmy.world
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL the first Internet search engine was “Archie”, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal. It’s still around todayen.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: til@lemmy.world
minus-squareEinar@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoWhy not link to it? Here we go: Working online Archie Search Instance
minus-squareLojcs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoAnyone wants to explain the niceness selector?
minus-squareWolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoAaaaand it was hugged to death Cool that Lemmy has enough users to DDOS but darn it, I wanted a hit of nostalgia
minus-squareBoozilla@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoGoogle search so bad now, people are trying Archie again. Funny/sad!
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoCan we revive Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves?
minus-squareDoug Holland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoA day later, and it’s still too swamped to let me in… I’ll keep trying, though.
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
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!
A day later, and it’s still too swamped to let me in… I’ll keep trying, though.