Alan Emtage (born November 27, 1964) is the creator of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives. November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Archie was the first search engine ever invented, designed to index FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. ... FTP or file transfer protocol is a commonly used protocol for exchanging files over any network that supports the TCP/IP protocol (such as the Internet or an intranet). ...

A native of Barbados, and the son of Sir Stephen and Lady Emtage, he attended high school at Harrison College from 1975 to 1983 (and in 1981 becoming the proud owner of a Sinclair ZX81 with 1K of memory), where he graduated at the top of his class, winning the prestigious Barbados Scholarship. High school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Timex Sinclair 1000 be merged into this article or section. ...

In 1983 he entered McGill University in Montréal, Canada studying for an honors Bachelor's degree in computer science which was followed by a Master's degree in 1987 from which he graduated in 1991. Emtage was part of the team that brought the first Internet link to eastern Canada (and only the second link in the country) in 1986. In 1989 while a student and working as a systems administrator for the School of Computer Science, Emtage created the Archie search engine, the world's first Internet search engine and the start of a line which leads directly to today's Altavista, Yahoo!, Inktomi and Google. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... McGill University is a publicly funded, research-intensive, non-denominational, co-educational university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Concordia Salus (Salvation through harmony) Ville de Montréal, Québec, Canada Location. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...   Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A system administrator is a person responsible for running, or running some aspect of, a computer system. ...   Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Archie was the first search engine ever invented, designed to index FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. ... A search engine or search service is a program designed to help find information stored on a computer system such as the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network or a personal computer. ... puddhi puddhi puddhi puddhi pdudddhi puddhi puddhi puddhi[puddhi npuddhi m part of the World Wide Web. ... Yahoo! Inc. ... Inktomi was a Californian company that provided software for Internet Service Providers, which was founded in 1996 by UC Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and graduate student Paul Gauthier. ... Google Inc. ...

In 1992, Emtage along with Peter J. Deutsch formed Bunyip Information Systems the world's first company expressly founded for and dedicated to providing Internet information services with a licensed commercial version of the Archie search engine used by millions of people worldwide. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Archie was the first search engine ever invented, designed to index FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. ...

Emtage was a founding member of the Internet Society and went on to create and chair several important Working Groups at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the standard-setting body for the Internet. Working with other pioneers such as Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, Mark McCahill (creator of Gopher) and Jon Postel, Emtage co-chaired the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Working Group which created and codified the standard for Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). The Internet Society or ISOC is an international organization that promotes Internet use and access. ... The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes Internet standards; in particular those of the TCP/IP protocol suite. ... The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is charged with developing and promoting Internet standards. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... Marc Andreessen (born April 26, 1971 in Cedar Falls, Iowa) is the chair of Opsware, a software company. ... Mark McCahill (born February 7, 1956) has been involved in developing and popularizing a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s. ... Gopher may mean: Gopher (animal), including: True gopher, i. ... Jon Postel (Photo by Irene Fertik, USC News Service. ... A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), is an Internet protocol element consisting of a short string of characters that conform to a certain syntax. ... Uri is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland. ... A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a string of characters conforming to a standardized format, which refers to a resource on the Internet (such as a document or an image) by its location. ... A Uniform Resource Locator, URL (spelled out as an acronym, not pronounced as earl), or Web address, is a standardized address name layout for resources (such as documents or images) on the Internet (or elsewhere). ...

Emtage has spoken and lectured around the world on Internet Information Systems.

Emtage is currently Chief Technical Officer at Mediapolis, Inc., a web engineering company in New York City. Chief Technical Officer or Chief Technology Officer, usually seen as CTO, is a business executive position whose holder is focused on technical issues in a company. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World[1], Gotham Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area    - City 1,214. ...

Works

• A. Emtage, P. Deutsch, "archie - An Electronic Directory Service for the Internet" Winter Usenix Conference Proceedings 1992. Pages 93-110.
• Michael F. Schwartz, Alan Emtage, Brewster Kahle, B. Clifford Neuman, "A Comparison of Internet Resource Discovery Approaches", Computing Systems, Fall 1992, pp. 461-493, 5(4),
• P. Deutsch, A. Emtage, A. Marine, How to Use Anonymous FTP (RFC 1635, May 1994)
• Alan Emtage, "Publishing in the Internet environment", Proceedings of the Sixth Joint European Networking Conference, 1995

References

• "The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture" John Battelle (Portfolio Hardcover, 2005) ISBN 1591840880
• How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web Robert Cailliau, James Gillies, R. Cailliau (Oxford University Press, 2000) ISBN 0192862073
• "The Information Revolution: The Not-for-Dummies Guide to the History, Technology, And Use of the World Wide Web" J. R. Okin (Ironbound Press, 2005) ISBN 0976385732
• "Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science" Marcel Dekker (CRC Press, 2002) ISBN 0824720725
• "Encyclopedia of Microcomputers" Allen Kent, James G Williams, Kent Kent (Marcel Dekke, 2002) ISBN 0824727274

Notes

• Hobbes' Internet Timeline
• A Brief History of Search Engines

External links

• Home page for Alan Emtage