[Sysadmin] Browser archive contributions

[William Anderson]

Hi Brian,

I managed to miss your email address on my reply, please see below!

William
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:09 PM William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 3:24 PM Brian Wilson <retail at blooberry.com> wrote:
> > Hi Dean,

> > I don't have links to the browsers, I have a pile of CDs. :)

> Hi Brian,

> A pile of CDs sounds ... not very downloadable ;) If we gave you a Dropbox
> link, would you be willing to uploadify the CDs?

> > I realized after I originally sent this that the only proper response if
> > you expressed interest was to give you a list of all the versions I
> > have. That took me a couple days to gather:


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pBxYFifmpPgjVwxypR5cDDemI6ieQIKS3wez8iwSKpk/edit?usp=sharing

> Don't worry about any further cross-referencing, what you've done so far
is
> awesome.  There's no rush.  Enjoy your weekend instead!

> > I figure we can determine what subset of the browsers I have that are
> > interesting and we can work from there how best to get them to you.

> I'm interested in them all. As mentioned, we could give you a Dropbox
link,
> does that sound useful? A CD into individual folders?

> > PS: after some brief browsing, it looks like evolt either does not focus
> > on pre-release versions, or just doesn't have very many of them. That
> > was something I covered in depth on my site, which is why I have so many
> > of them for IE, Mosaic, Netscape and Opera (the browsers I covered).

> I think Adrian (who first started the Browser Archive) was concentrating
on
> production releases, as that's what web developers would want to test with
> to ensure visitors experiences would match up with what the site owner
> wanted.  Nowadays it's more about archaeology, so the more the merrier.

> Let me know if you want to upload to Dropbox and I'll get a link organised
> for ya.

> -n