From tucows page: Tucows launches in Flint, Michigan The origins of what is now Tucows began in Flint, Michigan in 1993. While working for local libraries, Scott Swedorski noticed the public’s increasing interest in the World Wide Web and used his personal website to offer downloadable software. He dubbed this service TUCOWS, an acronym for The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software, which quickly gained recognition as the first site to offer software on a freeware or shareware basis. ----- Charles MacDonald <cmacd [ at ] zeusprune [ dot ] ca> wrote: > On 2021-01-27 12:41 p.m., John Argus wrote: > > Something I just saw that will be of interest to us old timers. > > https://tucows.com/retired/ > > > > I know I visited the site early in my computer days. Apparently they did > > move everything to the internet archives for posterity. > > yes, that site was almost BEFORE linux. used it a few times to get > stuff for my old Win3.1 computer. > > (My vanity domain is actually registered by the Tucows folks.) > > -- > Charles MacDonald VA3CPY Stittsville Ontario > cmacd [ at ] zeusprune [ dot ] ca Just Beyond the Fringe > No Microsoft Products were used in sending this e-mail. > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org