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There were others too. I liked Tucows Downloads too, it started even earlier, in 1993.
by piokoch 5y ago
There were others too. I liked Tucows Downloads too, it started even earlier, in 1993.
- morelisp 5y agoEven by 1997, Tucows and the recent CNET Download.com were covered in crap. It's the same problem e.g. AlternativeTo has today. There's no sense of a human in the loop at any stage, even though back then there must have been. Tucows was where you went to find the printer driver you'd lost the original disks for, not (to pick an absolutely random freshmeat.net from page from 2002) "a fully-featured role playing suite of applications that allow people to meet and play a classic "pen-and-paper" game across the internet" or a tool "adding functionality and ease-of-use to RPM, by allowing a user to search through a collection of RPMs on various FTP servers (given in a configuration file), and download and install all in one action."
- timbit42 5y agoMajor Geeks replaced them for me.
- morelisp 5y agoWell the first thing I see is two banner ads, one of them being a VPN. The next thing I see is three "system optimizers", two of which I know are garbage. I guess that's not too far from late Download.com energy, but I'd caution you about using it further.
- jcims 5y agoTrumpet Winsock days
- marcodiego 5y agoFreshmeat was FLOSS specific I think.