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Goodbye, Tucows Downloads: Software Download Site Finally Retires – PCMag AU
In a way, Tucows Downloads was an early app store for the internet in the 1990s and early 2000s to help people find freeware and shareware Windows software.
(Credit: Tucows.com/Internet Archive)
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. Were thankful to the thousands of software developers who used Tucows Downloads to get their software in front of millions of people, driving billions of downloads over more than 25 years.
The service dates back to 1993, when the internet was still in its infancy. Back then, downloading…
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