Archon stands for "Advanced Resources for Cyber Help & Online Navigation" and was a place for users to go and find out information on almost anything. The idea was that if users wanted to learn about hacking, or about security, in the modern world, you cannot easily find those resources due to legal and ethical concerns companies had.
WolfStudios had decided to create a service allowing users to search in a term and find a link to a fully working website that had instructions/information about what you wanted to know. You could think of it as a search engine but for things people could not easily find info about when using regular google or duckduckgo (or whatever their search engine was).
ARCHON also had access to other-side news, which allowed researchers to find information about the ukraine-russian war that could not easily be found. This meant you could actually go on russian-state media and see THEIR side of the world/war. This was a really useful tool, and we saw that no other mainstream media platform attempted to do this due to ethics and criticism.
However, we faced a problem. This was only really intended for my school business class project, and when it was over, i had no where to go. I thought about keeping it up, but after much consideration, i decided to pull the plug (slowely) by first removing direct access, then replacing the archon.html site to a notice page about the discontinuation.
Another problem i faced during the decision of pulling the plug was that archon required constant additions and removals in the dataset due to news companies constantly shifting and deleting articles. This caused you to get "dead urls" which i did not like, and unless i had a bot similar to "WebBot", i would be unable to constantly keep up.
Because of all of this, ARCHON is no longer active and no longer exists. This, however, does not mean it is gone gone. I have an archive of it somewhere, and i will eventually release its source code for people to view it and maybe even use for their own non-commercial use.
- WolfStudios News Team