http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html
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Computing
Review (in 1996):
This is a Web interface to the Mac software archives at Stanford University, probably the biggest single collection of Machintosh freeware and shareware in the world. (The archive is mirrored in many machines across the Internet.)
The HyperArchive isn't the first to provide a Web interface, but it's the most advanced: in addition to downloading files directly through your Web browser, you're able to sort in different ways, check for recent changes, and view the abstracts of specific files (as opposed to the old way, which was to load the abstract for all all the files in a given directory).
It still takes some study to use it well, and beginning users may have trouble with it, but the alternative is to get involved in FTP transfer arcana. Trust us, this is easier.
A great concept that can only get better.
As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.
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