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by genewitch 479 days ago
this is a valid - if cheeky - question. There is probably a fair amount of software lost to the sands of time that would be fun to discover on an old NNTP server.
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Valid and cheeky is squarely where I'm aiming, so thank you ;)
It's sad that the Usenet archive by Google doesn't have old binaries at all, and neither do all those "modern" services which are primarly used for piracy.

I wonder how much software has been lost forever.

there are people like me that try to save everything forever, so less lost than would otherwise be assumed. Hopefully.