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Internet search
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Search engine.
1990s: Birth of search engines
The first internet search engines predate the debut of the Web in December 1990: WHOIS user search dates back to 1982, and the Knowbot Information Service multi-network user search was first implemented in 1989. The first well-documented search engine that searched content files, namely FTP files, was Archie, which debuted on 10 September 1990.