Subj : Re: Mystic FTP server?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : paulie420
Date : Thu May 23 2024 09:54 pm

 pF>  pa> Did you see the youtube video about Archie being re-found and put up
 pF>  pa> last week?
 pF> 
 pF> Archie, Veronica, Jughead... seems comics fans created the early
 pF> internet...
 pF> 
 pF> from https://kb.iu.edu/d/aawk
 pF> 
 pF> Veronica and jughead are programs for searching Gopher servers. Veronica
 pF> is allegedly short for "Very Easy, Rodent-Oriented, Net-wide Index to
 pF> Computerized Archives", while jughead is supposed to be an acronym of
 pF> "Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display". The names
 pF> are also based on characters from Archie Comics, in connection with
 pF> Archie, a search engine for anonymous FTP.

I literally remember using Archie just after BBSes when I had a shell account @ the University of Toledo... I was hot shit, dating a professors daughter and had the HOTNESS internet connectionzzz!!



|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
|08.........

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)

.