Time Travel

Generally I find progress a good thing. From time to time I do find myself longing for the way things used to be. Here are some of the resources I have found invaluable for a little time travel.

• OldVersion.com - Keeps an archive of older versions of freeware and shareware applications. They keep expanding their library too.
• Wayback Machine - Provived by Archive.org and keeps an archive of the different revisions of web pages. Fairly complete, although fairly slow. Check out my original home page.
• Abandonware is the idea that when the copyright owner of a piece of software is unable to be found and the software cannot be obtained elsewhere, then it becomes free. This is most often applied to games, but some Abandonware sites have other applications too. There was some possible legislation recently to legalize Abandonware. Now it kind of exists in a grey zone.
• Old DOS Shareware / Freeware / Public Domain software can occasionally be found too on some of the big file archives.

If you literally want to travel in time then check out these sites:

• NOVA on Time Travel
• How Stuff Works (fun site) on How Time Travel Will Work.
• The Time Travel Fund - Invest $10 now and eventually it the future it will be enough to pay for time travel!
• Wikipedia on Time Travel

So what other time travel resources - either physically or nostalgically - do you use or recommend?

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