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The Internet Archive Is Now the Largest Collection of Historical Software Online

Posted by samzenpus on from the biggest-there-is dept.

hypnosec writes "The Internet Archive has a great collection of books, music, visual items and websites but, it had one thing lacking up until now – software. This has changed recently as The Internet Archive now claims to hold the largest collection of software in the world. The expansion at the Internet Archive has come through collaboration with other independent archives like the Disk Drives collection, the FTP site boneyard, Shareware CD Archive, and the TOSEC archive. The archive doesn't hold just the software – it also holds documentation as well."

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  1. Re:"and websites" by Registered+Coward+v2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Out of curiosity, how is this even legal?

    The Librarian of Congress granted a DMCA exemption for collections of obselete computer software archived for purposes of preservation. Not sure if it would apply to scanned manuals and documentation.

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  2. Re:Bit late for an April fool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can browse the contents (and directly download!) from within the ISO by appending a slash to the end of the download filename. This works with ISOs, ZIPs, and TARs.

    http://archive.org/download/Computer_Gaming_World_Extra_October_1995/Computer_Gaming_World_Extra_October_1995.iso/