[HN Gopher] BetaWiki - An open encyclopedia of software history
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       BetaWiki - An open encyclopedia of software history
        
       Author : skilled
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2023-06-17 11:02 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (betawiki.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (betawiki.net)
        
       | jamesy0ung wrote:
       | Not a huge fan of BetaArchive. You need to have a beta to upload
       | to download from the server, I get that they want betas and stuff
       | like that, but the closed nature really annoys me
        
         | rezedus wrote:
         | BetaWiki is not BetaArchive, they're ran by different people.
         | It doesn't provide any downloads, it only serves as a wiki.
        
         | codetrotter wrote:
         | That seems near impossible to be able to do. Unless.. I do have
         | some old CD's from various computer magazines and some of those
         | might have had some beta installers on them.
         | 
         | Either way, hopefully someone is mirroring things from this
         | BetaArchive website onto Archive.org and other places! I'd hate
         | to see another burn-down of Alexandria Library event like when
         | What.CD was lost resulting in permanent unavaiblability of
         | historically important data that could have been saved if
         | anyone cared enough to do it.
        
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