Thanks to the excellent Saturday Live on Radio4 on Saturday morning with the also excellent Fi Glover, did managed to hear an interview with Alan Emtage this weekend.
Who he?
Well he's the guy that invented the world's first search engine, which was called ARCHIE whilst he was still a student at McGill Uni in Montreal back in 1990 when google was just a twinkling in Larry Page and Sergey Brin's eyes some eight years later. (also while they were students).
So pioneering was the work that the entire 'internet' in Canada had the bandwidth of next to nothing, and they were taking half of it.
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