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was delving for. This research breakthrough would lead to the introduction of Veronica (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie and Jughead (Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display) by Rhett Jones as the next two search engines to be introduced to the world. Both of these systems implemented the Gopher protocol.

Tim Berners-Lee offered up a proposed idea based on hypertext that would allow for the sharing of information among researchers. He developed a prototype system and labeled it "Enquire". From here he designed and built the world's first web browser, editor and web server. The first web site was at CERN and appeared on the World Wide Web on August 6, 1991. It was an article written explaining exactly what the WWW was, how to access it, and how to become a part of it. This first web site was written by Tim Berners-Lee and also had the distinction of being the world's first web directory as Berners-Lee also maintained other web sites.

In 1993 Mathew Gray introduced the computer world to its first "Bot" or web robot. He named his creation the World Wide Web Wanderer and it was originally created to keep track of the number of active web servers on the internet. He soon upgraded his little robot to perform the duties of a true internet searcher and set it out to capture the numerous urls as they appeared on the World Wide Web. The data base that he created became known as Wandex and it along with the World Wide Web Wanderer were the makings of the first search engine to appear on the WWW. They are no longer available but their place in the pages of history are well earned. Also in 1993, a second search engine came into existence and was referred to as Aliweb, it is still in existence today and has the distinction of being the worlds oldest search engine.

1994 saw the introduction of four new search engines, Jumpstation which was very limited in that it only allowed the searcher to access the titles of web pages but not the information contained within them, Webcrawler, Infoseek and Lycos. WebCrawler revolutionized the process of information retrieval by search engines, it allowed the user access to now search the internet by typing in just a single word, and that word would then be located on any and all web pages in its directory. This system became the initiating standard for modern search engine retrievals, and it remains in usage today by virtually all search engines on the WWW.

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