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Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 00:10:42 JST Miakoda

I think the future of the internet is going to be alternative protocols. If "web sites" get censored and banned, then the way around that are things that aren't "web sites".

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  Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 07:55:17 JST Miakoda
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  - Dianora (Diane Bruce)
  @Dianora I do not recall what that is
  
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  Dianora (Diane Bruce) (dianora@ottawa.place)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 07:55:18 JST Dianora (Diane Bruce)
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  @hellomiakoda Bring back Archie!
  
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  Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 07:55:22 JST Miakoda
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  - bjb :devuannew: :emacs:
  @bjb To name a couple, yes. But also probably some new ones
  
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  bjb :devuannew: :emacs: (bjb@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 07:55:23 JST bjb :devuannew: :emacs:
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  @hellomiakoda
  Irc? Gopher?
  
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  Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 07:58:24 JST Miakoda
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  - Dianora (Diane Bruce)
  @Dianora Ironically, FireFox crashed trying to load that link. The paragraph I got to see though does sound nice
  
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  Dianora (Diane Bruce) (dianora@ottawa.place)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 07:58:25 JST Dianora (Diane Bruce)
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  @hellomiakoda https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/
  Think of it. No JS No massive font or CS downloads. No video. Just pure results.
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  Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 08:00:56 JST Miakoda
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  @Dianora Oh, it worked after a force close and reopen. I mentioned it cause it struck me as funny
  
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  Dianora (Diane Bruce) (dianora@ottawa.place)'s status on Monday, 04-Aug-2025 08:00:57 JST Dianora (Diane Bruce)
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  @hellomiakoda Odd since I also use Firefox. Try
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine)
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    Archie (search engine)
    
    Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing users to more easily identify specific files. It is considered the first Internet search engine. The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, then a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Archie was superseded by other, more sophisticated search engines, including Jughead and Veronica, which were search engines for the Gopher protocol. These were in turn superseded by directories like Yahoo! in 1995 and search engines like Google in 1998. Work on Archie ceased in the late 1990s. A legacy Archie server was maintained for historic purposes in Poland at Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling in the University of Warsaw until 2023. With assistance from the University of Warsaw, a new Archie server was created and opened for public access at The Serial Port, a web-based computer museum, on 11 May 2024. Origin Archie first appeared in 1986, while Emtage was the systems manager at the McGill University School of Computer Science. His predecessor had attempted to persuade the...

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