Multiple choice general knowledge

The very first tool used for searching on the (pre-web) Internet was

  1. Overture

  2. Archie

  3. Baidu

  4. AltaVista

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Archie (1990) was the first search tool for the pre-web Internet, specifically designed to index FTP (File Transfer Protocol) archives. It was created by Alan Emtage at McGill University. Overture, Baidu, and AltaVista came later - AltaVista was a web search engine (1995), not a pre-web tool.