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The WAIS protocol and servers were primarily promoted by Thinking Machines Corporation of Cambridge, Massachusetts . Thinking Machines produced a WAIS server which ran on their CM-1 and CM-5 Supercomputer s. WAIS clients existed for various Operating System s including Windows , Macintosh and UNIX . With the advent of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s and the bankruptcy of Thinking Machines in 1995 , the primitive interface of the WAIS system quickly gave way to Web based Search Engine s. There are few WAIS servers in existence on the Internet today. One of the developers of WAIS was Brewster Kahle , who left Thinking Machines to found WAIS Inc in Menlo Park, California with Bruce Gilliat . After selling WAIS to AOL in May 1995 for $15 million, Kahle and Gilliat founded the Internet Archive and then Alexa Internet . WAIS AND GOPHER WAIS was often used as a full text Search Engine for individual Internet Gopher servers, supplementing the popular Veronica system which only searched the menu titles of Gopher sites. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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