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Archie, the Internet's first search engine, is rescued and running
A journey through busted tapes, the Internet Old Farts Club, and SPARCstations.
Advertisement The Serial Port notes the general loss of the Internet's FTP era, including the recent shutdown of the Hobbes OS/2 Archive. Emtage's company, Bunyip Information Systems, last sold version 3.5 of Archie's server software for $6,000 in the mid-1990s (almost $12,000 today), and yet you can't find it anywhere on the web. Emtage, who would later help define the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) standard, gave his blessing to The Serial Port's efforts to recapture and preserve the code of Archie's server.
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