[LINK] Winsite went down in 2009 and mirrors erased it (!)

Dr Bob Jansen bob.jansen at turtlelane.com.au
Tue May 15 13:22:24 AEST 2012


Fernando,

have you tried the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine? A quick search 
found 
http://web.archive.org/web/20090213174804/http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/pool/3/mirror/winsite/

I don't know if this is what you need but maybe it is.

bobj

On 15/05/12 1:00 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> That in the age of 1TB+ hard drives that one major repository of
> shareware and freeware software went down in 2009 and its mirrors
> proceeded to DELETE THEIR ARCHIVES rather then keep their copies, is
> criminal, if you ask me.
>
> http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/pool/3/mirror/winsite/README.txt
>
> The only mirror still online at mirror-service.org.uk, has a subset of
> what was the full Winsite (ie no /winnt/ subdir).
>
> And the file I was looking for "vm10.exe" (Virtual-Mouse driver 1.0)
> seems to be gone forever...
>
> The last trace on the web was at the Hungarian mirror for Winsite at
> IIF.hu. But that, too, is gone
> http://ftpbus.net/browser/ftp.iif.hu/pub/pub/mirror/ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/winnt/misc/
> (click on any file link and see)
>
> Needless to say, archive.org is useless for situations like this....
>
> How much useful software is lost forever every month due to ftp sites
> shutting down and no archive kept anywhere?
>
> FC

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