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Wow, nostalgia, it's been years since even hearing about Tucows. Tucows was a huge part of my childhood from 10 to 18 years old. Good run and great early repository for software. Thanks Tucows.
Same!! So many fond memories of the early web. I miss what was that "new frontier" feeling.
One day it's your go-to site for things, the next it's not on your radar.
Maybe search engines, mobile, and app stores all contributed to changing the .
Wow, nostalgia, it's been years since even hearing about Tucows. Tucows was a huge part of my childhood from 10 to 18 years old. Good run and great early repository for software. Thanks Tucows.
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Is there any meaningful difference between a ftp server and a http server with directory listing enabled?
IIRC at least initially the FTP had some special modes to transfer binary data, whereas HTTP was not as efficient. And of course, HTTP was meant to be "pull only" whereas FTP had upload capabilities too.
The advantage with HTTP wasn't efficiency, it was that resuming interrupted downloads was typically possible with FTP but not HTTP (because ranged GET took a long while to get support in both servers and clients).
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There was something magical about this era when I was a child downloading gameboy emulators like No$GBA. I miss download.com Is there fewer people making desktop software nowadays? It seems there is less software available. It's also very hard to be profitable and monetize software.
I hated Download.com. It was buying up all my favorite download sites of the era and shutting them down without integrating their features. I think SoftSeek was my favorite and I'm hard pressed to find even a screenshot of it these days. Off to look.
https://web.archive.org/web/19991118153527/http://www.softse...
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A former coworker of mine went to work there, and my immediate thought upon learning of this was "The download site?" It turns out they're doing pretty well for themselves. They might not have much brand recognition these days, but they're a much bigger company than I thought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucows
I have used Hover for years. I don't really do anything too complex with them, but I have no complaints which is basically the best endorsement I can giver for a domain registrar.
Wow, nostalgia, it's been years since even hearing about Tucows. Tucows was a huge part of my childhood from 10 to 18 years old. Good run and great early repository for software. Thanks Tucows.
I remember downloading GetRight download manager from there. Aeons ago, truly Internet 1.0.
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Me too! I miss the era of the internet that Tucows represents.
I miss the walnut creek days of ftp.cdrom.com. Many an id demo and FreeBSD isos downloaded. Before that I knew of them from actually buying their CD's in the mid 90's before we had the internet.