Quzzicle: What Was The First Internet Search Engine?

Answer: Archie

Archie was created by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Peter Deutsch in 1990 at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. It stands for "Archives". It was designed to help users find files and documents on FTP servers, which were common sources of files and data on the early Internet.

Gopher
52.63%
Veronica
16.78%
Archie
16.45%
Lycos
14.14%

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