The operators of the website Serial Port have recently revivedArchie, the internet’s first search engine.
Its FTP search and indexing functions are available to the public again after languishing in obscurity for years.
Finding and rebuilding the ancient search engine took months of detective work.
The final version of Archie, version 3.5, was released in 1996.
This was just enough for Serial Port to rebuild the historic search engine and host a new server.
Serial Port’s FTP hyperlinks make the process faster than when Archie originally debuted.
