francescob Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Through the years I've been collecting a lot of older software/games, especially stuff from magazines (floppies/CDs), symbian/WM software, themes, ringtones, ROMs, etc. It's damn irritating having all this stuff around, I want to get rid of it but a pretty big part of it is basically unique/unfindable. Several years ago I started uploading part of it on file uploading websites (mainly Megaupload) and linking it on forums for people looking for it but unfortunately all the stuff went offline (because all those hosting websites closed). I was thinking about putting it all on Skydrive/Mega or other online storage websites but I'm afraid they could be taken down due to bogus takedown requests (they're usually done in bulks so it's not rare that materials ends up flagged even when they're perfectly legal to be hosted). Am I doomed to have to keep all this stuff around forever or is there some solution? :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lant Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Send it to a national museum, or a university that specialises in computing history, or the internet archive?Although finding them is probably going to be difficult. Using free hosting websites is futile or the same reason that we academics rarely include weblinks in our citations or to our source code in papers. You cannot rely on free hosting sites to continue to exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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