On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 15:13 +0000, Matthew Woodcraft wrote: > Don Dailey wrote: > > A few years later I was pointed to a site where I could download that > > and just about any commercial chess program. We are talking several > > decades ago, I didn't bookmark the site or use it myself and I have no > > idea if it's still there. > > It seems to me that only a very small number of people would have been > in a position to download anything, several decades ago. What kind of > 'site' was it, anyway? Doubtless not a web site!
The download site was a web site. The original source of my program for free I don't remember, it might have been by software clubs where it was common to trade such things. Also, well before the web was popular there were still "bulletin boards", which you would connect to via a modem and had software download sections and so on. Most people are too young to know this, but piracy was a very common practice way before the Internet came along. I myself was offered free programs for my first computer, a TRS-80 4k machine on cassete tape. This was in the day where it was extremely rare for there to be a computer in most peoples house. - Don > > -M- > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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