@Eric_DebbyJan 10.2017 — #There are now hundreds of different search engines and directories. Names like Yahoo, Magellan, Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, The WWW Worm, and of course, Lycos have become part of the Internet vocabulary. But none of the now popular search engines was the first. That honour went to Archie, an application created in 1990 by Alan Emtage.