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Veronica was a search engine system for the Gopher protocol, released in November 1992^[1] by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada, Reno.^[2]

During its existence, Veronica was a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of Gopher servers. The Veronica database could be searched from most major Gopher menus. Although by 1999 the original Veronica database was no longer accessible,^[3] various local Veronica installations and at least one complete rewrite ("Veronica-2") still exist.^[4]

The existence of Veronica induced another Gopher search tool from the University of Utah originally called Jughead.^[2] While the two were separate search tools, a Jughead instance could be configured with a veronica control file in order to let the Veronica harvester know how to obtain the data file from Jughead.^[5]

Naming

The search engine was named after the character Veronica Lodge from Archie Comics, an intentional analogy with the naming of the Archie search engine, a search engine for FTP servers. A backronym for Veronica is "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives".^[6]^[7]

References

^ "Navigating the Internet - Penn Printout, Feb 1993". upenn.edu. Archived from the original on August 22, 2018.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Lee, Christopher (Cal) (1999-04-23). "Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share". ils.unc.edu. Archived from the original on 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
^ Smith, Ernie (2017-08-01). "Long Live Gopher: The Techies Keeping the Text-Driven Internet Alive". Vice. Archived from the original on 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
^ "Veronica FAQ (Part 1 of 2)". www.ou.edu. Q11. Archived from the original on 1999-01-16. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
^ Museum, Web Design (10 March 2023). "Veronica search engine - 1992 | Web Design Museum". www.webdesignmuseum.org.
^ Cory Doctorow, at about 12:37 Cory states in his podcast what Veronica stands for.

External links

local-veronica source
Search Veronica-2 an actively indexed re-implementation of Veronica.

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[1] "Navigating the Internet - Penn Printout, Feb 1993". upenn.edu. Archived from the original on August 22, 2018.

[eff-2] 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.

[3] Lee, Christopher (Cal) (1999-04-23). "Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share". ils.unc.edu. Archived from the original on 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2024-07-21.

[4] Smith, Ernie (2017-08-01). "Long Live Gopher: The Techies Keeping the Text-Driven Internet Alive". Vice. Archived from the original on 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2024-07-20.

[5] "Veronica FAQ (Part 1 of 2)". www.ou.edu. Q11. Archived from the original on 1999-01-16. Retrieved 2024-07-21.

[6] Museum, Web Design (10 March 2023). "Veronica search engine - 1992 | Web Design Museum". www.webdesignmuseum.org.

[7] Cory Doctorow, at about 12:37 Cory states in his podcast what Veronica stands for.

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-'''Veronica''' was a [[Search engine (computing)|search engine]] system for the [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher protocol]], released in November 1992<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/computing/printout/archive/v09/4/navigation.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822042146/http://www.upenn.edu:80/computing/printout/archive/v09/4/navigation.html|title=Navigating the Internet - Penn Printout, Feb 1993|archivedate=August 22, 2018|website=upenn.edu}}</ref> by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the [[University of Nevada, Reno]].
+'''Veronica''' was a [[Search engine (computing)|search engine]] system for the [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher protocol]], released in November 1992<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/computing/printout/archive/v09/4/navigation.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822042146/http://www.upenn.edu:80/computing/printout/archive/v09/4/navigation.html|title=Navigating the Internet - Penn Printout, Feb 1993|archivedate=August 22, 2018|website=upenn.edu}}</ref> by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the [[University of Nevada, Reno]].<ref name="eff">{{Cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |date=2020-02-21 |title=Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses |url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221184413/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses |archive-date=2020-02-21 |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=[[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] |language=en}}</ref>
-During its existence, Veronica was a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of Gopher servers. The Veronica database could be searched from most major Gopher menus. Although the original Veronica database is no longer accessible,{{when|date=May 2018}} various local Veronica installations and at least one complete rewrite ("Veronica-2") still exist.{{elucidate|date=January 2017}}{{clarify|date=January 2017}}
+During its existence, Veronica was a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of Gopher servers. The Veronica database could be searched from most major Gopher menus. Although by 1999 the original Veronica database was no longer accessible,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Christopher (Cal) |date=1999-04-23 |title=Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share |url=https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607005249/https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm |archive-date=2007-06-07 |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=ils.unc.edu}}</ref> various local Veronica installations and at least one complete rewrite ("Veronica-2") still exist.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Ernie |date=2017-08-01 |title=Long Live Gopher: The Techies Keeping the Text-Driven Internet Alive |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kwek8/long-live-gopher-the-techies-keeping-the-text-driven-internet-alive |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019071459/https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kwek8/long-live-gopher-the-techies-keeping-the-text-driven-internet-alive |archive-date=2020-10-19 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=Vice |language=en}}</ref>
+The existence of Veronica induced another Gopher search tool from the [[University of Utah]] originally called [[Jughead (search engine)|Jughead]].<ref name="eff" />  While the two were separate search tools, a Jughead instance could be configured with a veronica control file in order to let the Veronica harvester know how to obtain the data file from Jughead.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Veronica FAQ (Part 1 of 2) |url=https://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/veronica.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990116234616/https://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/veronica.htm |archive-date=1999-01-16 |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=www.ou.edu |at=Q11}}</ref>
 ==Naming==
-The search engine was named after the character [[Veronica Lodge]] from [[Archie Comics]], an intentional analogy with the naming of the [[Archie search engine]], a search engine for [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP servers]].  A [[backronym]] for Veronica is "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/veronica-search-engine-1992|title=Veronica search engine - 1992 &#124; Web Design Museum|first=Web Design|last=Museum|website=www.webdesignmuseum.org}}</ref>
+The search engine was named after the character [[Veronica Lodge]] from [[Archie Comics]], an intentional analogy with the naming of the [[Archie search engine]], a search engine for [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP servers]].  A [[backronym]] for Veronica is "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/veronica-search-engine-1992|title=Veronica search engine - 1992 &#124; Web Design Museum|first=Web Design|last=Museum|website=www.webdesignmuseum.org|date=10 March 2023 }}</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_328/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_328_-_Gopher_When_Adversarial_Interoperability_Burrowed_Under_the_Gatekeepers_Fortresses.mp3 Cory Doctorow], at about 12:37 Cory states in his podcast what Veronica stands for.</ref>
 ==See also==
 * [[Archie search engine|Archie]]&nbsp;– a search engine for finding [[FTP]] files.
 * [[Jughead (search engine)|Jughead]]&nbsp;– an alternative [[Search engine (computing)|search engine]] system for the [[Gopher (protocol)|Gopher protocol]].
-* [[Wide Area Information Server|WAIS]]&nbsp;– another client-server text searching system of the same era.
+* [[Wide area information server|WAIS]]&nbsp;– another client-server text searching system of the same era.
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928175808/http://hal3000.cx:70/Software/Unix/local.veronica.tar.gz local-veronica source]
-* [gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/v2 Search Veronica-2] an actively indexed re-implementation of Veronica. '''Note:''' ''This link uses the Gopher protocol so it may not work in most modern browsers.''
+* [https://gopherproxy.meulie.net/gopher.floodgap.com/1/v2 Search Veronica-2] an actively indexed re-implementation of Veronica.
 {{gopher clients}}