Archie is a search machine, which was developed particularly for indexing ftp archives. The name comes of the English word of "“archives"” (archive).

The idea was born to archie in the year 1990 by the students Alan Emtage, Peter Deutsch and Bill Heelan, which studied at this time to the McGill University School OF computer Science in Montreal. They began to program search robots so mentioned which comb Internet systematically and information collect. Thus developed in November 1990 archie V1.0, which could be queried over telnet.

A goal of archie was it to create a central data base in the listings and files of the distributed and wide-spread Anonymous FTP servers be contained should. Thus the search for files and programs should be strongly facilitated over a central data base.

Over the service archie it was however only possible to find contents from which at least parts and fragments to the search admits were, since the search was limited on the file and listing names, which lay on the ftp servers. Also only eight indications were available, so that an archie search required all right exact search parameters, in order meaningful results to get for the search ring.

Nothing the defiance had archie only a very much subordinated role in the Internet. The quite complex operation and the arising World Wide Web continued to push archie ever into the background. Many developers swung on the www technology and used these as basis for search machines.

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