Nekochan archive...

At this point, I either take donations of vintage software or I am tipped off there's still places online serving it up. My own estimation is that FTP sites are in danger, or at least well on the way to being dead, with some notable exceptions. In some cases, we are finding obscured but helpful mirrors of data, making it worthwhile to grab a copy and store it in http://archive.org/details/ftpsites for later. While yes, there might be fresher mirrors out there, it's sometimes surprising what is gone or shifted or has bowdlerized out portions of the original sites over the years. By grabbing these capsules, we make the data available in some way. For example, FTP.ARL.MIL has gone through radical change since the beginning years, KOMKON.ORG does not actually respond at the moment, and so on. I hope that the FTP sites stay up forever, but life is showing they won't. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:11 PM, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote: