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Jan 22, 2021 · Remember Tucows Downloads? The freeware and shareware downloads website is finally retiring. “Tucows Downloads has had an incredible run,” CEO Elliot Noss writes in a blog post. “We’re ...
We have made the difficult decision to retire the Tucows Downloads site. We’re pleased to say that much of the software and other assets that made up the Tucows Downloads library have been transferred to our friends at the Internet Archive for posterity.
Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX, TSX: TC) today announced it has retired the software downloads site that started it all. TUCOWS, which then stood for The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software, started on a library computer in Flint, MI in 1993. 28 years later, it served up its last software download.
Jan 25, 2021 · As others may have said, Tucows was a huge resource, often free, for a lot of platforms that nobody else would collect in a useful and easily accessed repository – perhaps the ghost of the ...
Jan 21, 2021 · Tucows Downloads is retiring after hosting freeware and shareware for nearly 3 decades. Once upon a time when the web was young and trustworthy sites for downloading Windows software were...
Tucows Downloads was one of many repositories to download freeware and shareware in their heyday in the 2000s and the early portion of the 2010s, alongside competitors like CNET 's Download.com. Before the advent of the worldwide web, it started off as a BBS in 1993.
Jan 22, 2021 · In the early days of the internet, Tucows was known as a reliable place to find and download new software. Today, however, most people are happy to use a modern App Store — Microsoft and...
Jan 27, 2021 · One of the web’s early software download bazaars, Tucows.com, has closed. Originally named “The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software” and launched in 1993, the site came along just as the web erupted into the public imagination and as shareware became a popular tactic for software distribution and marketing.
Jan 25, 2021 · For the past several years, history, well sentimentality, has been the only reason to keep Tucows Downloads around. We talked about shutting the site down before. Most seriously in 2016 when instead, we decided to go ad-free, keeping the site up as a public service. Today is different.
Dec 31, 2014 · Vintage Software; APK; MS-DOS; CD-ROM Software; CD-ROM Software Library; Software Sites; Tucows Software Library; Shareware CD-ROMs; Software Capsules Compilation; CD-ROM Images; ZX Spectrum; DOOM Level CD
