Veronica is a search engine system for the Gopher protocol, developed in 1992 by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada, Reno

University of Nevada, Reno

The University of Nevada, Reno , is a teaching and research university established in 1874 and located in Reno, Nevada, USA...

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Veronica is a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of Gopher servers. The Veronica database can be searched from most major Gopher menus.

The name, although officially an acronym for "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives", was chosen to match that of the FTP

File Transfer Protocol

File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server...

 search service known as Archie

Archie search engine

Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine. The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J...

 — Veronica Lodge

Veronica Lodge

Veronica Lodge is a fictional character in the Archie Comics books series.-Fictional history and character:She is called both by her name Veronica and her nickname Ronnie...

 being the name of another character from the Archie Comics

Archie Comics

Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by...

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Veronica-2

[gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/v2 Veronica-2] is a complete rewrite

Rewrite (programming)

A rewrite in computer programming is the act or result of re-implementing a large portion of existing functionality without re-use of its source code. When the rewrite is not using existing code at all, it is common to speak of a rewrite from scratch...

 of Veronica by Cameron Kaiser.
As of September 2010, [gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/v2/vstat its index] contained 1,320,747 selectors.

See also

• Jughead — an alternative search engine system for the Gopher protocol.
• Archie
  Archie search engine
  Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine. The original implementation was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J...
  
   — a search engine for finding FTP files.

External links

• [gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/7/v2/vs Veronica2 at floodgap]
• [gopher://hal3000.cx:2347/7 Hal3000 Veronica] (Based on local-veronica)
• [gopher://gopher.dna.affrc.go.jp:2347/7 gopher.dna.affrc.go.jp] (Only indexes one server)
• local-veronica source