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1989

The first internet search engine

While working as a McGill system administrator, Alan Emtage, BSc'87, MSc'91, was tasked with scouring the nascent Internet for free software. Emtage cleverly wrote an open-source program to automate this task, which he called Archie. Just in his mid-twenties, Emtage had created the first Internet search engine.

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