• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It was also the name of an insane computer intelligence in a tabletop RPG game called RIFTS by Palladium Books. It originally appeared in RIFTS Sourcebook One from 1991, about a year after the initial release of Archie (the search engine). I don’t know if the writer, Kevin Sembieda, took the name of the AI, A.R.C.H.I.E. Three, from this search engine or if it’s just something he worked up on his own, but I’ve always thought that was kind of funny.

    https://palladium-store.com/1001/product/801-Rifts-Sourcebook-One-Revised-and-Expanded.html