Retiring Tucows Downloads

Post by kalleboo » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 3:39 AM UTC

kalleboo wrote: post #180

tpmx wrote: post #10

> We’re pleased to say that much of the software and other assets that made up the Tucows Downloads library have been transferred to our friends at the Internet Archive for posterity. The usage of the word "much" makes it seem like IA crawled most of the archive, "probably". @ Elliot Noss: The real classy way to shut down something as historically important as this would be to transfer a 100% (edit: ~100%) dump to th…

Jason Scott of the Internet Archive seems to have said they were offered the data https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1352523064874053632

Post by ai_ja_nai » Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 7:35 PM UTC

girvo wrote: post #144

ai_ja_nai wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember downloading GetRight download manager from there. Aeons ago, truly Internet 1.0.

Holy heck that’s a blast from the 56k past.