Editing Archie (search engine) (section)

{{short description|FTP search engine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox software
| screenshot = Archie search engine.png
| caption = Screenshot of Archie
| author = [[Alan Emtage]]
| developer = Bunyip Information Systems, Inc.
| released = {{start date and age|df=yes|1990|9|10}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.archives/LWVA50W8BKk/wyRbF_lDc6cJ|title=[next] An Internet archive server server (was about Lisp)|last=Deutsch|first=Peter|date=11 September 1990|access-date=2017-12-29}}</ref>
| discontinued = yes
| latest release version = 3.5
| latest release date = 1996
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system = [[Oracle Solaris|Solaris]], [[IBM AIX|AIX]]
| genre = [[Web search engine]]
| website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/19980221172140/http://www.bunyip.com/products/archie/|bunyip.com/products/archie/}} (original product page, archived)<br>
{{URL|https://archie.serialport.org/}} (online instance)
}}
{{Internet history timeline}}
'''Archie''' is a tool for indexing [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] archives, allowing users to more easily identify specific files. It is considered the first [[Internet]] [[Search engine (computing)|search engine]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The First Search Engine, Archie |url=http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/1990archie.htm |access-date=2007-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621141150/http://isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/1990archie.htm |archive-date=21 June 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The original implementation was written in 1990 by [[Alan Emtage]], then a postgraduate student at [[McGill University]] in [[Montreal]], [[Canada]].<ref>{{cite web |work =PC Magazine| title =Archie |url =https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/archie |access-date =2020-09-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author =Alexandra Samuel| title=Meet Alan Emtage, the Black Technologist Who Invented ARCHIE, the First Internet Search Engine| date=21 February 2017 |url =https://daily.jstor.org/alan-emtage-first-internet-search-engine/ |publisher=[[ITHAKA]]| access-date =2020-09-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author =loop news barbados |title =Alan Emtage- a Barbadian you should know| url =https://barbados.loopnews.com/content/alan-emtage-barbadian-you-should-know |publisher=loopnewsbarbados.com|date =2019-08-30 |access-date =2022-04-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author =Dino Grandoni, Alan Emtage |title =Alan Emtage: The Man Who Invented The World's First Search Engine (But Didn't Patent It)| url =https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/alan-emtage-search-engine_n_2994090?ri18n=true&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jb25zZW50LnlhaG9vLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABveQefuoczW_8_bxwbOgluVTUPvIfv5s_OP1jMgUJd8MCwKc148lvXb7HAHXY48P_Be6wXMW0LKlLRfQzJNalLpuwnp7F6NpbyDC2BG10OveS2qtubkO0PhJ8-juP3M2a9K2ygbWuoUhOCvO-1NA6-YQKA8BtdZEcsfUUI_M-8S |work=[[HuffPost]]| date =April 2013|access-date =2020-09-21 }}</ref>
Archie was superseded by other, more sophisticated search engines, including [[Jughead (search engine)|Jughead]] and [[Veronica (search engine)|Veronica]], which were search engines for the [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher]] protocol. These were in turn superseded by directories like [[Yahoo!]] in 1995 and search engines like [[Google Search|Google]] in 1998. Work on Archie ceased in the late 1990s. A legacy Archie server was maintained for historic purposes in Poland at [[Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling]] in the [[University of Warsaw]] until 2023.

With assistance from the University of Warsaw, a new Archie server was created and opened for public access at The Serial Port, a web-based computer museum, on 11 May 2024.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUwR9xdEuZI |title=We brought back the Internet's first search engine |author=The Serial Port |website=YouTube |date=11 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Purdy |first=Kevin |date=2024-05-16 |title=Archie, the Internet's first search engine, is rescued and running |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/ |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=[[Ars Technica]] |language=en-us}}</ref>