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Maybe a little bit before that there were similar services for Shareware applications. These were typically free, or one-time purchase, however, and would submit your program to all the websites listed automatically. Although many of the sites were junk, the combination of a few good directories and the long-tail of a bunch of low traffic directories was enough to launch a new shareware program.

That's the service that came to mind for me when I read the headline.