In the few years before the WWW, I had a hobby at work of finding public FTP sites and downloading local copies of what was on the sites. A simple grep search o

In the few years before the WWW, I had a hobby at work of finding public FTP sites and downloading local copies of what was on the sites. A simple grep search over these files often surfaced useful code and data. I shared this with just my local work group at work. I agree that the ‘awesome list’ repos on GitHub are very useful.