Something created in 1989 that changed how people used , viewed then-nascent #Internet had nearly vanished by 2024. Nearly because dogged researchers, enthusiasts at The Serial Port channel on YouTube have found what is likely the last existing copy of #Archie. Archie, first crafted by Alan Emtage while a student at McGill Univ in Montreal allowed for searching various "anonymous" #FTP servers around what was then very small web of unis, researchers, govt military nodes. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/
Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running:
A journey through busted tapes, the Internet Old Farts Club, and SPARCstations.
It's amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how people used and viewed the then-nascent Internet had nearly vanished by 2024.
🧵 …nun gibt es auch einen Artikel auf Deutsch zum obigen Thema. Vor Google gab es einige Suchmaschienen davor aber die hier erwähnte, war die erste im Internet.
»Das war die erste Suchmaschine des Internets:
Archie konnte FTP-Webseiten auffinden. Das Programm galt als verschollen, wurde nun aber wieder entdeckt und in Gang gesetzt.«
Yes, that's a lot of warnings for an Archie comic, eh?
Afterlife with Archie is a story about a zombie breakout in Riverdale. It begins when Jughead's dog Hot Dog is killed and he asks Sabrina the Teenage Witch to help bring the dog back. The dog does come back, but is undead, bites Jughead, and the zombie contagion begins to spread.
This continues at a Halloween dance where we watch as characters from classic Archie stories are put into a wild and violent situation as they are fighting, and hiding, to survive.
The art from Francesco Francavilla is dark, gritty, and compelling. It tells a visual narrative as Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's dialogue and narration work hand in hand to pull you in to the horror.
One of the content warnings I included was about an implied incestuous relationship, which is included between Cheryl and Jason Blossom. I genuinely don't understand it's inclusion in the plot and while, so far, nothing has come of it, it was unsettling in a different way then everything else.
This is, currently, the only compiled volume of Afterlife with Archie. There are 5 more issues released after this, so I'll have to figure out how to even read them.
Feel free to sound off in the comments if you've read this or any of the Archie Horror comics.
Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge are both important ladies in Archie Comics. They both rank in the '100 Sexiest Women in Comics' by Comics Buyer's Guide, the most well known publication on American comic book industry
I’ve been getting sentimental about my beloved comic collection. It's not the biggest or the most valuable, but it's mine.
So I'm starting a weekly #ComicShowAndTell where I share my comics and collectibles, from the notable to the bizarre. I might have manga to talk about too, once in a while.
I'll try to keep this going once a week, maybe not always on the same day though.
This is The Punisher Meets Archie, published in 1994. In this story, the Punisher chases a dangerous criminal into Riverdale…a criminal who looks a lot like Archie. The premise apparently started as a joke between the creators.
The cover of this comic is die-cut into the shape of a crosshair, right over Archie's face on the page beneath.