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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Mia_Mor9986 on 2024-08-15 14:00:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the first Internet search engine was “Archie”, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal. It’s still around today and is considered a useful way to index FTP (File Transfer Protocol) archives.