> 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.
Google doesn't spider for filenames, just content. If a list of filenames
doesn't show up on a web page, Google won't see it.
As an example, I just did a search for "adsMstr_6-76.log"
which can be found at
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Datapoint/cassetteDumps/
and there were no hits from google, yahoo, altavista, or google code search.
It is odd, though that Google doesn't find the page from
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Datapoint/cassetteDumps/, so apparently it won't
index content that is a directory.
It would be interesting to know if there is a search engine that can in
fact find a file by name. There are several files I have been searching
for that I know the name of, but not where they might exist on the web.