History of Search Engine Episode I
Over the weekends when I in Singapore, I ran across this old comic of Archie and friends. Suddenly, that reminds me of an article I used to read in a magazine regarding history of search engines. You are wondering what I’m talking about right ? What does Archie Comic got to do with Search Engine?
Well, to tell you the truth…according to the history of Search Engine. In early 90s when the world wide web is still young at age, FTP is the only means to share files across the net. Then, came along a young programmer called Alan Emtage developed a useful software which compiled site listings of FTPs. Users can type a search term or query to retrieve the list. Guess what he called that software? “ARCHIE” yup, Archie was the first search engine ever created for web.
Figure 1.1 : Archie Search Engine
In 1993, with Archie growing in fame considerably, the students in University of Nevada developed another engine to search gopher files (an old version of html but only in plain text) - thus “VERONICA” was born!
Figure 1.2 : Veronica Search Engine
Later on they even created an alternative version to VERONICA which is JUGHEAD - lmao looks like almost the whole ARCHIE and friends are in the web. Hmmm…what an interesting historical lesson 
