isr.co.ro : glossary Archie A catalog of information available through file transfer protocol (FTP) services on the Internet, or a specific network, and the programs used for compiling and accessing that catalog. At one point, accessing an Archie server was one of the best ways to locate information you hoped or believed was out there on the Net. Most users later switched to the gopher service and its Veronica index, and then they switched most recently to the World Wide Web and its proliferating number of search engines.