It was quite messy. And none of those channels came anywhere close to carrying all the Amiga software released. It was a complete utopia when Aminet was founded. It starts to become reality now. Much like the Fish disks in the early days, Aminet has now become the place to check for new software.
Internet is a strange place to be.
Aminet is being run by a team of 60 administrators who, for the most part, have never seen each other or even talked to each other. Aminet is moderated by a Swiss who never got closer than 1000 miles to the computer he does his work on. The uploads are contributed by people who, for the most part, are never going to know who they wrote them for. We may not know each other. But the users of the Amiga are, more than the users of any other computer in the world, and on the Internet more than anywhere else, a community.