<s>
Archie	B-Protocol
is	O
a	O
tool	O
for	O
indexing	O
FTP	B-Protocol
archives	O
,	O
allowing	O
users	O
to	O
more	O
easily	O
identify	O
specific	O
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
considered	O
the	O
first	O
Internet	B-Application
search	I-Application
engine	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Archie	B-Protocol
has	O
since	O
been	O
superseded	O
by	O
other	O
,	O
more	O
sophisticated	O
search	B-Application
engines	I-Application
,	O
including	O
Jughead	B-Protocol
and	O
Veronica	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
were	O
in	O
turn	O
superseded	O
by	O
search	B-Application
engines	I-Application
like	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	I-Application
</s>
<s>
in	O
1995	O
and	O
Google	B-Application
in	O
1998	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Work	O
on	O
Archie	B-Protocol
ceased	O
in	O
the	O
late	O
1990s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
legacy	O
Archie	B-Protocol
server	O
is	O
still	O
maintained	O
active	O
for	O
historic	O
purposes	O
in	O
Poland	O
at	O
University	O
of	O
Warsaw	O
's	O
Interdisciplinary	O
Centre	O
for	O
Mathematical	O
and	O
Computational	O
Modelling	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Archie	B-Protocol
first	O
appeared	O
in	O
1986	O
,	O
while	O
Deutsch	O
was	O
the	O
systems	B-Application
manager	I-Application
at	O
the	O
McGill	O
University	O
School	O
of	O
Computer	O
Science	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
name	O
derives	O
from	O
the	O
word	O
"	O
archive	O
"	O
without	O
the	O
v	O
.	O
Emtage	O
has	O
said	O
that	O
contrary	O
to	O
popular	O
belief	O
,	O
there	O
was	O
no	O
association	O
with	O
the	O
Archie	B-Protocol
Comics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Despite	O
this	O
,	O
other	O
early	O
Internet	B-Application
search	I-Application
technologies	O
such	O
as	O
Jughead	B-Protocol
and	O
Veronica	B-Protocol
were	O
named	O
after	O
characters	O
from	O
the	O
comics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Anarchie	B-Operating_System
,	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
earliest	O
graphical	O
FTP	B-Protocol
clients	O
was	O
named	O
for	O
its	O
ability	O
to	O
perform	O
Archie	B-Protocol
searches	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
earliest	O
versions	O
of	O
Archie	B-Protocol
would	O
simply	O
search	O
a	O
list	O
of	O
public	O
anonymous	O
File	B-Protocol
Transfer	I-Protocol
Protocol	I-Protocol
(	O
FTP	B-Protocol
)	O
sites	O
using	O
the	O
Telnet	B-Protocol
protocol	O
and	O
create	O
an	O
index	O
files	O
available	O
via	O
FTP	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
listings	O
were	O
stored	O
in	O
local	O
files	O
to	O
be	O
searched	O
using	O
the	O
Unix	B-Application
command	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
developers	O
populated	O
the	O
engine	O
's	O
servers	O
with	O
databases	O
of	O
anonymous	O
FTP	B-Protocol
host	O
directories	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
was	O
used	O
to	O
find	O
specific	O
file	O
titles	O
since	O
the	O
list	O
was	O
plugged	O
in	O
to	O
a	O
searchable	B-Application
database	O
of	O
FTP	B-Protocol
sites	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Archie	B-Protocol
did	O
not	O
recognize	O
natural	O
language	O
requests	O
nor	O
index	O
the	O
content	O
inside	O
the	O
files	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
ability	O
to	O
index	O
the	O
content	O
inside	O
the	O
files	O
was	O
later	O
introduced	O
by	O
Gopher	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Emtage	O
and	O
Heelan	O
wrote	O
a	O
script	O
allowing	O
people	O
to	O
log	O
in	O
and	O
search	O
collected	O
information	O
using	O
the	O
Telnet	B-Protocol
protocol	O
at	O
the	O
host	O
"	O
archie.mcgill.ca	O
 "	O
 [ 132.206.2.3 ] 	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
collected	O
data	O
would	O
be	O
exchanged	O
between	O
the	O
neighbouring	O
Archie	B-Protocol
servers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
servers	O
could	O
be	O
accessed	O
in	O
multiple	O
ways	O
:	O
using	O
a	O
local	O
client	O
(	O
such	O
as	O
archie	B-Protocol
or	O
xarchie	O
)	O
;	O
telnetting	O
to	O
a	O
server	O
directly	O
;	O
sending	O
queries	O
by	O
electronic	O
mail	O
;	O
and	O
later	O
via	O
a	O
World	O
Wide	O
Web	O
interface	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
zenith	O
of	O
its	O
fame	O
the	O
Archie	B-Protocol
search	I-Protocol
engine	I-Protocol
accounted	O
for	O
50%	O
of	O
Montreal	O
Internet	O
traffic	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1992	O
,	O
Emtage	O
,	O
along	O
with	O
Deutsch	O
and	O
some	O
financial	O
help	O
from	O
McGill	O
University	O
,	O
formed	O
Bunyip	O
Information	O
Systems	O
with	O
a	O
licensed	O
commercial	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
Archie	B-Protocol
search	I-Protocol
engine	I-Protocol
used	O
by	O
millions	O
of	O
people	O
worldwide	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Heelan	O
followed	O
them	O
into	O
Bunyip	O
soon	O
after	O
,	O
where	O
he	O
together	O
with	O
Bibi	O
Ali	O
and	O
Sandro	O
Mazzucato	O
significantly	O
updated	O
the	O
Archie	B-Protocol
database	O
and	O
indexed	O
web	O
pages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Work	O
on	O
the	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
ceased	O
in	O
the	O
late	O
1990s	O
.	O
</s>
