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Jughead (search engine)

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Jughead is a search engine system for the Gopher protocol. It is distinct from Veronica in that it searches a single server at a time.[1]

Jughead was developed by Rhett Jones in 1993 at the University of Utah.[1]

The name "Jughead" was originally chosen to match the Archie search engine, as Jughead Jones is Archie Andrews' best friend in Archie Comics. Later a backronym was developed: Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display.

It was released by the original author under the GNU General Public License in 2006,[2] and its source code has been modernized to better run on current POSIX systems.

Due to trademark issues, the modified version was called Jugtail,[3] and has been made available for download on GNU Savannah.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "The lowdown on Archie, Gopher, Veronica and Jughead". Archived from the original on 2019-09-09. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  2. ^ a b "Jugtail - Summary [Savannah]". savannah.nongnu.org. Archived from the original on 2006-02-25. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
  3. ^ Doctorow, Cory (2020-02-21). "Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Archived from the original on 2020-02-21. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
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