Some history of Internet Search you should know
Memex: The idea of a virtually limitless, fast, reliable, extensible, associative memory storage and retrieval system. It was proposed by Vannaver Bush, one of Roosevelt’s scientific advisers in the mid-1940s.
Xanadu: Project Xanadu, created by Ted Nelson in 1960, was to create a computer network with a simple user interface that solved many social problems like attribution. A lot of the inspiration to create the WWW came from Project Xanadu.
SMART: The father of modern search technology, George Salton, created eveloped the Saltons Magic Automatic Retriever of Text, also known as the SMART informational retrieval system. The system had important concepts like the Term Frequency (TF), Inverse Document Frequency (IDF), term discrimination values, relevancy feedback mechanisms and vector space model. A book by him called “A theory of indexing” is still popular with search engine developers and search guidelines developed today follow his ideas.
Archie: Alan Emtage a McGill University student created Archie “the first search engine” in 1990. Archie indexed FTP archives, allowed users to quickly access specific files. Archie user could use a variety of methods like e-mail queries, telneting directly to a server and eventually through the World Wide Web interfaces. Archie only indexed computer files and helped to solve the data scatter issues. When created it was called archives but was changed to Archie for short.
Gopher: In 1991 Paul Linder and Mark P. McCahill created a text based information browsing system which used a menu-driven interface to pull information from across the globe to the user’s computer. Gopher tunneled through other Gophers located in computers around the world, arranging data in a hierarchical series of menus, which users can search for specific topics.
WorldWideWeb: Tim Berners-Lee created designed and built the first web browser and editor, called WorldWideWeb. He joined hypertext with the internet. Earlier he had created Enquire to create to create the World Wide Web. He also developed on NeXTSTEP. He then created the first Web server called httpd, short for HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon.
http://info.cern.ch/ : Was the first website built ever. It went online on August 6, 1991.
Tim Berners-Lee also created the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994. Along with Virtual Web library, the oldest catalogue of the web.
Then it revolutionized the Internet search era.
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