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Archie

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(ARCHIvE) An earlier Unix utility used to search for file names on Internet FTP sites. Considered by some as the first search engine, in its heyday before the Web, there were approximately 30 Archie servers throughout the Internet that maintained catalogs of files available for downloading from various FTP sites. Periodically, Archie servers searched the FTP sites and recorded information about the files they found. See FTP.

Archie
the eternal comic-book teenager. [Comics: Horn, 87]
See : Teenager
(tool, networking)archie - A system to automatically gather, index and serve information on the Internet. The initial implementation of archie by McGill University School of Computer Science provided an indexed directory of filenames from all anonymous FTP archives on the Internet. Later versions provide other collections of information.

See also archive site, Gopher, Prospero, Wide Area Information Servers.
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She got no farther, for a general shout made her pause suddenly, as Archie explained the joke by saying in the middle of his laugh
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
Archie the Kid steals two dollars an' eighty cents from a drunk and gets fifty years.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
Archie Green was strolling up the hillside, - his pipe in his mouth, and his driver under his arm.
The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
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