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7/18/2012 2:22:00 PM EST
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A Mini Synopsis Of How Google Got Started
google, search engines, FTP, Archie, Gopher
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You’ll get easy access to Google search results no matter where you go on the web. Did you know that the very first tool used for searching on the Internet was called Archie meaning Archive without the V in 1990 by Allan Emtage et al. The program downloaded the directory listings of all the files located on public anonymous sites, creating a searchable database of file names called FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
The creation of Gopher by Mark McCahill in 1991 led to the Veronica and Jughead search programs. These two search engines performed the same job as Archie. Veronica Meaning Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives) provided a keyword search of most Gopher menu titles in the entire Gopher listings. Jughead means Jonzy’s Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display) was a tool for obtaining menu information from specific Gopher servers.
In June 1993, Matthew Gray produced the first web robot, the Perl-based World Wide Web Wanderer. The purpose of the Wanderer was to measure the size of the World Wide Web, which lasted until late 1995. The web's second search engine Aliweb came online in November 1993. Aliweb depended on being notified by website administrators of the existence of each site of an index file in a specific format.
Although Aliweb is no longer active, I wanted to give everyone a short brief history of how it all began. As you are aware, there is much, much more that was created technologically after 1995 to make Google the giant that it is today.
I hope you enjoy this brief story of how Google got its start.
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 | | Excellent post Mary, thanks for sharing it. tweet for you |
| | |  | | This is one cool post! I had no clue Mary. Will share, this is fun information. |
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