ftp archives disappearing?

10 Mar 2007

...
    Has anyone else noticed that ftp search services like
archie seem to
 have disappeared  
 The web as subsumed all of this, in an inferior fashion, IMHO.  
 Yeah, but I think of the things I used to easily find with archie and
 now I can't find them at all with google even with targetted searches
 for specific filenames.  I can ftp to simtel.net and find it if I know
 its there, but I don't know the names of other FTP archives.  Google
 code search is interesting, but doesn't find things I know exist
 either. 
Maybe it's just because I'm a hammer and every problem looks like a nail,
but people have forgotten how good gopher can work in this regard also.

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ftp archives disappearing?