Archie, the Internet's first search engine, is rescued and running

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7 pointsisaacfrond3 comments

I remember installing a text only browser to visit a 'website' at CERN on this new thing the 'world wide web'. I browsed their website for like 30 seconds, and deleted the browser. That will never amount to anything. I was sure of it.

My children delight in this story. Though they don't really believe the text-only part. That's got to be a fabrication on my part.

I also remember trying out a browser. Lynx IIRC and being unimpressed. Gopher seemed much more promising.

I left university for a term holiday and came back to labs full of Netscape on Windows for workgroups machines. Everyone was on the web.

Would be better to just link to the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUwR9xdEuZI

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