The curious story of how a college student wrote a shell script and ended up changing the Internet. We take a look at the anonymous FTP search engine called Archie, and find out how it disappeared just as quickly as it arrived.

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00:00 — Intro
00:45 — Resource Discovery Problem
02:27 — Mike Schwartz
05:57 — The first search engine
06:28 — Alan Emtage
15:46 — The web emerges
17:57 — Mission impossible
18:37 — Outro

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