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@boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running

arstechnica.com

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Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running

arstechnica.com

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  • miss phant
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    74•1 year ago

    I use archie btw

    • @UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world
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      10•1 year ago

      Love the Archie comeback, but fuck arstechnica and their fucked up site format. They literally call themselves the „Art of Technology“ and can’t even get their website properly formatted for mobile. Pathetic.

      • @tal@lemmy.today
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        5•1 year ago

        It works fine for me on Firefox on Android. How is it breaking for you?

        • @UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world
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          1•1 year ago

          iOS Safari. The scaling is utterly fucked up. The page displays just half the width on load right off the bat. As one pinches to zoom out to get the full width, the font scales so small, it’s unreadable without zooming back in to half width. The site is peppered with ads to boot to add insult to injury. I don’t even try to hang around, good riddance.

  • @0x0@programming.dev
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    11•1 year ago

    Archie’s back? I don’t think “modern” day users can handle him…

    • @RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11•1 year ago

      He’s back! In POG form!

      • TubeTalkerX
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        Like Alf???

  • @nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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    11•1 year ago

    The link, to save you a click: https://archie.serialport.org/

  • @stoly@lemmy.world
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    2•1 year ago

    I’ve been on unit Internet since before there was an Internet and I’ve never heard of this site!

  • @Beaver@lemmy.ca
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    2•1 year ago

    Let the arena expand!

  • @Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    1•1 year ago

    I love the hit counter. Super nostalgic right there.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    1•1 year ago

    I like using Archie to find Sonic fanfics

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