[theforum] Fwd: Browser archive contributions

[William Anderson]

I've gotten all these files from Brian. It's a couple of gig of good stuff.
I'll look at integrating it into the archive when I can.

-n

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:50 PM William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:

> YES PLEASE! :)

> Also, I'd be happy to put a mirror of the indexdot site on the browser
> archive, since none of the existing mirror or download pages seem to work
:(

> -n

> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:23 PM David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.org> wrote:

> > Email from a browser donor :-)

> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Brian Wilson <retail at blooberry.com>
> > Date: Sun, May 20, 2018 at 2:45 PM
> > Subject: Browser archive contributions
> > To: <give at evolt.org>

> > Hi,

> > I used to create/maintain a resource about HTML/CSS called "Index DOT
> > Html/Css" (http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot). It was a great reference
> > used by many for a number of years, but it has since fallen by the
wayside
> > (browser developers became waaaay too ambitious to keep up with :) )


> > So, as part of creating that site I had grabbed numerous versions of the
> > various web browsers I was covering (alphas, betas, point releases and
> > more). I have them all archived, and I was going to finally throw them
out
> > during a big spring cleaning I'm doing right now. In the back of my
mind I
> > remembered your browser archive, so I thought I'd 1) see if you are
still
> a
> > going concern, and 2) see if you might be interested in any of these
> > versions. I probably have 50-100 browser versions from the early WWW
days.
> > I have no idea if what I have fills in any of your blanks or if you
would
> > want any of what I have. In any case, I thought I'd put the question out
> > there to gauge interest first before moving forward.


> > Note: on browsers.evolt.org, you have the following:

> > Browser submissions should be sent in the form of a URL using our
contact
> > form <http://evolt.org/contact/>, so that evolt.org staff can download
the
> > software into the master archive.

> > This leads to a 404. I'm not sure if this give at evolt.org address is the
> > proper alternate route.


> > Thanks, and I hope you (all) and your site are doing well,

> > Brian Wilson
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