Veronica was a search engine system for the Gopher protocol, released in November 1992[1] by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada, Reno.
[2] During its existence, Veronica was a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of Gopher servers.
[4] The existence of Veronica induced another Gopher search tool from the University of Utah originally called Jughead.
[2] While the two were separate search tools, a Jughead instance could be configured with a veronica control file in order to let the Veronica harvester know how to obtain the data file from Jughead.
A backronym for Veronica is "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives".