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Good old archie... http://archie.icm.edu.pl/archie-adv_eng.html http://archie.icm.edu.pl/archie-adv_eng.html

• userbinator 10y ago
  > Search Type: Sub String Exact Regular Expression Google has an advantage in terms of index size, but definitely lose in terms of precision. The way it munges queries is a bit unsettling at times, and even the "exact" option doesn't seem to always work the way it should.
  • daurnimator 10y ago
    Have you tried verbatim mode? (Thanks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12046056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12046056)
    • mikeash 10y ago
      That is a huge improvement over the normal search, but unfortunately it's not truly verbatim. For example, searching for `self` with the backticks turns up results for just self with no backticks. It works with some symbols but not others, not sure why.
• webtechgal 10y ago
  Now this DOES bring on the nostalgia... :-) I recall there used to be a veronica too (Very Easy Rodent Oriented Network something or the other....), then a jughead too ...
  • dalke 10y ago
    I remember using the UI through telnet archie.mcgill.ca. It showed percent progress. The location used a 32-bit signed int. When the archive exceeded 2GB, the percentage became a negative count to 0% rather than count-up to 100%.