Veronica (computer)
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Veronica is a search engine system for the Gopher protocol, developed in 1992 by Steve Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada.
Veronica is (or was) a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of Gopher servers. The Veronica database can be searched from most major Gopher menus.
The name, although officially an acronym for "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives", was chosen to match that of the FTP search service known as Archie — Veronica Lodge being the name of another character from the Archie Comics.
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Veronica-2
Veronica-2 is a complete rewrite of Veronica by Cameron Kaiser. As of December of 2005, its index contained 5.5 million selectors. 1
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See also
- Jughead - an alternative Gopher search system.
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External links
- Hal3000 Veronica (Based on local-veronica)
- gopher.dna.affrc.go.jp (Only indexes one server)
- local-veronica sourcede:Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives