[Traveler59]

If my memory can function, it started out early 80`s, `90`s as it was all BBS`s and newsgroup protocols and using GOPHER archive search engine out of Univ. of Wisconsin at the local library.

The GOPHER search engine came out of the Computer Science labs at the University of Minnesota, home of the Golden Gophers. The first node was at the U of M. But there was also the Archie search engine, and a Veronica search engine.

[bunkerhill7]

Yes thank you for rekindling my memory -Archie, U of Minn- I stand corrected after scores of years and the memory just ain`t that good anymore/ There was also an archival world-wide newspaper database but I forgot the name.