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Early Access: The Serial Port - "We brought back the internet's first search engine"
🕑 Added 2024-05-11 00:42:17 +0000 UTCThe Serial Port is back with the next installment of their Archie deep-dive, a tool for indexing FTP archives in the early '90s. They do some serious software archaeology to hunt down a version of Archie to get up and running for the first time in many years!
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Datashed Retrocomputing
Interesting! I run my retro isp partially on SS20s. Also looked into Archie, but didn't persevere enough to get anywhere. Have also wanted to resurrect Veronica and WAIS. Loved the latter so much in the 90s.
clabretro
yeah pretty interesting, I suppose it's not too demanding since its just an index, assuming it's search capabilities don't consume a bunch a resources.
John Fugedy
Interesting that Archie was running on a Sun SPARCstation 20 and not a larger server such as a SPARCserver 690MP! Or is it that the the search engine is really not that a complex program?
Liquorist
Oh ho, a Serial Port post as well? What a great week! Cheers.
