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Today • July 5

Veronica

Veronica

Short for "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives." Veronica was a tool developed in the early 1990s for searching Gopher servers. The "rodent-oriented" acronym reflects how Veronica enabled keyword searches across Gopher, an information network structured as menus and text files. ... Read More

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A saved URL is also called a favorite or ____?

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Placeholder
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Bookmark
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