I bought shareware
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Especially when talking "folklore".
Kids today don't realize there was a time when online access wasn't so available, and certainly not nearly as fast. There were all those companies that packaged sharware and freeware software in a form that you could easily get, and you were happy to pay the price.
Computer fleamarkets came late here, it was 1990 if I remember properly, and I was amazed by how many booths were from these places selling packaged shareware-freeware. And I gladly paid the price to buy up various floppy disks of things I wanted, but had no other way of getting. A few years later, most of those floppies were gone, with CDROMs taking over. A few years after that, a lot of those companies were no longer bothering to attend the fleamarket. By that point, things had changed enough that they weren't the only game in town.
You still see such packages, but they aren't as common as they once were.
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The last shareware-freeware disks I bought, it was at a used booksale at a local university at least five years ago. Clearly the floppies had been donated by the university's bookstore, and since they were selling for 25 cents each, I bought them for the disks not the software.
Michael
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