The World-Wide Web Worm (WWWW) was the first search engine for the World-Wide Web, being developed in September 1993 by Oliver McBryan at the University of Colorado.
The worm created a database of 300000 multimedia objects which could be obtained or searched for keywords via the WWW. In contrast to present-day search engines, the WWWW featured support for Perl regular expressions.
The website, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html, is no longer accessible.
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