How a shell script became the world's first search engine

How a shell script became the world's first search engine https://tube.test.blacklodge.link/videos/watch/4b927af6-dfe9-4f7a-a053-ee1def33b670 The curious story of how a college student wrote a shell script and ended up changing the Internet. We take a look at the anonymous FTP search engine called Archie, and find out how it disappeared just as quickly as it arrived. Want more content like this? Support our mission! Send us a Super Thanks and check out our Patreon + Discord community: https://www.patreon.com/serialport Got some retro gear you want to donate? Get in touch with us at serialport.org. Our second channel: @TheParallelPort 00:00 — Intro 00:45 — Resource Discovery Problem 02:27 — Mike Schwartz 05:57 — The first search engine 06:28 — Alan Emtage 15:46 — The web emerges 17:57 — Mission impossible 18:37 — Outro #internet #technology #90s References and sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTbjt6j2acrFtWZJmHqsujI2WLguOjW2rNh_mK6Rj2MEoNo_cjaY5_O5ReeqTYz-tWW9mqVzX6uCqvq/pub Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:47:14 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.test.blacklodge.link How a shell script became the world's first search engine https://tube.test.blacklodge.link/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://tube.test.blacklodge.link/videos/watch/4b927af6-dfe9-4f7a-a053-ee1def33b670 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.test.blacklodge.link/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.