Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University, created the very first internet search engine in 1990 and named it Archie, which was simply the word "archive" without the letter "v"…

Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University, created the very first internet search engine in 1990 and named it Archie, which was simply the word "archive" without the letter "v" because he wanted to keep it short; unlike modern search engines that scour the text of web pages to sell you highly targeted consumer goods, Archie just searched through a database of public file directories without any context or descriptions, so if you wanted to find something, you literally had to know the exact filename you were looking for, making early internet browsing feel less like exploring a digital library and more like blindly rummaging through a stranger's incredibly disorganized filing cabinet!