But what about Veronica?
Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running
Submitted 5 months ago by tal@lemmy.today to technology@lemmy.world
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guyrocket@kbin.social 5 months ago
tal@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I’m pretty sure that there are some active gopher servers, and I assume that something is indexing them.
googles
Yeah, still there. Here’s a Web gateway if you don’t have a gopher client.
It looks like they have “Veronica-2” running.
gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=gopher.floodgap.co…
It seems to still be indexing and returning search results for gopherspace. Here’s a search for “linux”:
rezifon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And now guyrocket is too embarrassed to admit they thought they were making a funny joke and didn’t realize they were 32 years too late to the punchline.
guyrocket@kbin.social 5 months ago
Amazing! Thanks!
paddirn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Rifts RPG by Palladium Books had a sourcebook with an insane supercomputer named A.R.C.H.I.E. that survived a nuclear apocalypse. It controlled a robotics factory to build an army of killer robots that it planned to rebuild humanity with. Rifts came out in 1990 (that sourcebook in 1991), about a year/two after this Archie system came out. I wonder if the writer, Kevin Sembieda, took it as inspiration and assumed this search engine would one day morph into an AI? Interestingly, many of the search engines of today seem to be trying to reinvent themselves as AI services, so it may not have been that far off the mark, just don’t give them control of any robots.
newtraditionalists@kbin.social 5 months ago
This is cool, but I hate that the article basically says "you should just watch the video and I'm going to report on essentially nothing." No motherfucker. I want to read it.
Brewchin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The whole full circle thing aside, I’m delighted we’re still able to do this 🖕🏻 with the current protocols.
My choices > your shareholders.
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
The original Arch user