From: Sh@dow.br   
      
   On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 05:18:36 -0000 (UTC), Moe Trin   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 31 May 2017, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.internet.wireless, in article   
   ><8cruicp111jipd15l84l81di5qdmh84isi@4ax.com>, Shadow wrote:   
   >   
   >>     I remember using Archie and gopher a long time ago. But it   
   >>does not help the guy with the DNS problems ....   
   >>     There was even a service where you sent an email with the URL   
   >>and they sent you the archived webpage/file. Precious savings in the   
   >>days of dialup connections and downloads charged by kilobyte.   
   >   
   >That was one of the ways you could use Archie.    My first "home"   
   >computer was an Osborne 1 (running CP/M which predates M/S DOS) and   
   >came with an attached 300 baud modem.  I was lucky in that the dialin   
   >server was a local call, but when the (local) storage media was a   
   >single-sided single density (91 kb) floppy, you weren't downloading   
   >for long (wow - it also had 64 k of RAM).   
   >   
   >>     Was that a Simtel thing ? Can't remember.   
   >   
   >Simtel20 was a mainframe at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico,   
   >and it had _hundreds_ of free-ware and share-ware programs.  The   
   >"wuarchive" was at Washington University in St. Louis, and also had a   
   >huge amount of downloadable stuff - as did oakland.edu in Minnesota.   
   >   
      
   	Wayback has a massive amount of those old collections with   
   direct download:   
      
   https://archive.org/search.php?query=BBS%20Software%20Collection   
      
   	They only go back to the 90's though(as far as I could see).   
   Look at the menu to the left.   
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