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> 30 years ago, it was safe to go to vendor XY page and download his latest version and it was more or less waterproof.

You _are_ joking, right? I distinctly remember all sorts of dubious freewarez sites with slightly modified installers. 1997-2000 era. And anti-virus was a thing in MS-DOS even.



back then we were sharing Shareware or Freeare or PD-Ware by swapping disks and copying magazine disks :-D

but, you are old enough - so mean pages like fosi.da.ru back then? ;-)


I don't remember all the places I got software... :)


...BBS systems e.g....




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