Used it all the time in the early 90s. Even though the tech was very primitive back then, I miss the academic spirit and open collaborative nature of it all. Corporate greed has really wrecked the open web.
corporate greed has ruined the world
The serial port made a really good video about it recently. This channel is pretty amazing for early internet content.
Archive, Veronica, and Gopher… The Usenet trio
Why not link to it? Here we go:
Working online Archie Search Instance
Aaaaand it was hugged to death
Cool that Lemmy has enough users to DDOS but darn it, I wanted a hit of nostalgia
Google search so bad now, people are trying Archie again. Funny/sad!
Can we revive Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves?
A day later, and it’s still too swamped to let me in… I’ll keep trying, though.
