What came before Google?

Search engines are apart of internet user's daily life. Obviously, Google is currently the mother of all search engines, but it was not always this way. Intially it wasn't the huge companies which were not creating search engines but rather college students were.The first tool for searching the Internet was called “Archie” which was created by Alan Emtage, a McGill University student in 1990. Archie was a program that downloaded a listing of all files located on public anonymous File Transfer Protocals (FTP). The list was generated into a searchable database for users to access.