Most of these tools like Archie and Veronica seemed like magical services when I started cruzing the internet. I recently learned that Archie when it started wa

Most of these tools like Archie and Veronica seemed like magical services when I started cruzing the internet. I recently learned that Archie when it started was nothing more than a collection of `ls -lR`s of various ftp servers that would be searched with grep. Which, in hindsite, was the obvious unixy way of doing it.