Veronica (search engine)

Veronica was a Gopher search engine, released in November 1992^[1] by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada, Reno.

It was often updated to have results for almost everything on thousands of Gopher servers. Most popular Gopher menus could access it. Veronica is gone,^[when?] but there are local versions and Veronica-2, a full rewrite still exists.

Naming[change | change source]

Veronica's name is from an Archie Comics character (Veronica Lodge), as is Archie, an FTP search engine. Veronica uses the backronym "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives".^[2]^[3]

References[change | change source]

↑ "Navigating the Internet - Penn Printout, Feb 1993". upenn.edu. Archived from the original on August 22, 2018. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
↑ Museum, Web Design. "Veronica search engine - 1992 | Web Design Museum". www.webdesignmuseum.org.
↑ Cory Doctorow, at about 12:37 Cory states in his podcast what Veronica stands for.

Other websites[change | change source]

local-veronica source
Search Veronica-2 an actively indexed re-implementation of Veronica. Note: This link uses the Gopher protocol so it may not work in most modern browsers.

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[1] "Navigating the Internet - Penn Printout, Feb 1993". upenn.edu. Archived from the original on August 22, 2018. Retrieved September 27, 2021.

[2] Museum, Web Design. "Veronica search engine - 1992 | Web Design Museum". www.webdesignmuseum.org.

[3] Cory Doctorow, at about 12:37 Cory states in his podcast what Veronica stands for.

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