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original_reader ,

Why not link to it? Here we go:

Working online Archie Search Instance

Gullible ,

Aaaaand it was hugged to death

Cool that Lemmy has enough users to DDOS but darn it, I wanted a hit of nostalgia

Boozilla ,
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Google search so bad now, people are trying Archie again. Funny/sad!

Lost_My_Mind ,

Can we revive Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves?

AceFuzzLord ,

Pretty sure Ask Jeeves is still around, but from what I understand it’s basically useless.

Boozilla ,
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The future is HotBot, baby!

Lojcs ,

Anyone wants to explain the niceness selector?

Boozilla ,
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Used it all the time in the early 90s. Even though the tech was very primitive back then, I miss the academic spirit and open collaborative nature of it all. Corporate greed has really wrecked the open web.

Pechente ,

The serial port made a really good video about it recently. This channel is pretty amazing for early internet content.

paddirn ,

It was also the name of an insane computer intelligence in a tabletop RPG game called RIFTS by Palladium Books. It originally appeared in RIFTS Sourcebook One from 1991, about a year after the initial release of Archie (the search engine). I don’t know if the writer, Kevin Sembieda, took the name of the AI, A.R.C.H.I.E. Three, from this search engine or if it’s just something he worked up on his own, but I’ve always thought that was kind of funny.

palladium-store.com/…/801-Rifts-Sourcebook-One-Re…

HubertManne ,

I was not even using gopher until 92 and did not use a graphical interface to the internet until at least 96 but maybe 97 or 98.

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