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Yonge Street (pronounced "young") is the longest street in the world at 1,896 km. a major arterial route connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe. The construction of Yonge Street is designated an Event of National Historic Significance in Canada. The street was named by Ontario's first colonial administrator for his friend Sir George Yonge, an expert on ancient Roman roads. Yonge Street is the location of or close to many attractions in Toronto, since, in addition to serving as the city's "main street", it runs near Bay Street (the centre of the business district) and University Avenue, the site of the Ontario Legislature.

The author originally wanted to call the program "archives," but had to shorten it to comply with the Unix world standard of assigning programs and files short, cryptic names such as grep, cat, troff, sed, awk, perl, and so on. Archie servers are programs which maintain databases of Anonymous FTP host directories. Archie works by regularly connecting to remote public hosts and automatically downloading directory listings of public files.

At the early date of 1990, there was no World Wide Web. This was (and still is) a system that specified a common way for computers to exchange files over the Internet.