10 Mar
2007
10 Mar
'07
5:37 p.m.
On 3/10/07, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
Yeah, but I think of the things I used to easily find with archie and
now I can't find them at all with google even with targetted searches
for specific filenames. I can ftp to simtel.net and find it if I know
its there, but I don't know the names of other FTP archives. Google
code search is interesting, but doesn't find things I know exist
either.
Maybe it's just because I'm a hammer and every problem looks like a nail,
but people have forgotten how good gopher can work in this regard also.
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I've got some space I can dedicate to archiving classic software archives
and I'd be glad to put my internet bandwidth to work for this great
cause...however I never really was around sadly back when these bbses and
'ol ftp archives were popular and sadly don't know of any (except for some
good vintage mac archives which I've already pretty much archived to its
entirety ^_^ )...perhaps one or more of you guys would be so kind as to
share with me your list of still existent ftp archives either on or off
list? Thanks! :-)
> > Has anyone else noticed that ftp
search services like archie seem
to
have disappeared
The web as subsumed all of this, in an inferior fashion, IMHO.