Jughead is a

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system for the Gopher protocol. It is distinct from Veronica in that it searches a single

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at a time. Jughead was developed by Rhett Jones in 1993 at the

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. The name "Jughead" was originally chosen to match the Archie search engine, as Jughead Jones is Archie's friend in

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was developed: ''Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display''. It was released by the original author under the

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in 2006, and its

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has been modernized to better run on current

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systems. Due to trademark issues, the modified version was called Jugtail, and has been made available for download on

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External links

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References

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