The camp was operational from 1959 to 1967.
Camp Century was a secret military installation built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1950s, located beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. The purpose of the base was to conduct research on various Arctic topics, including ice cores and climate studies, as well as to provide a strategic missile site in the event of a war with the Soviet Union.
Archie began as a project for students and volunteer staff at the McGill University School of Computer Science in 1987.
Now we just Google it. In the early days of the internet, we had to Archie it. Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing users to easily identify specific files. The name derives from the word “archive” without the v.
Travis Shane Taylor was born in Decatur, Alabama on July 24, 1968. His father, Charles Taylor, worked for Wyle Laboratories, as a machinist, who subcontracted with NASA in the 1960s building America’s first satellites with Wernher von Braun. At 17, Travis built a radio telescope that won the state science fair, placing 6th in the nation.
