Aminet

Aminet is the world's largest archive of Amiga-related software and files. 

Aminet was originally hosted by several universities' FTP sites, and is now available on CD-ROM and on the web.

In 1 April 2013, Aminet has 80592 packages online.

 History 
In January 1992, Swiss student Urban Müller start to work with software archive. It had been started by other members of a computer science students' club.

Soon the archive became famous worldwide. In 1995 Aminet has started to distribute on monthly CD-ROMs.

By using a single master site for creating ftp scripts for each slave site, Aminet reduced to a bare minimum for setting up new mirror sites.

Aminet also shows practical use of metadata schema by software repositories. Reports of daily additions to this software archive were posted automatically to Usenet or could be requested as an email newsletter.

Most of the programs on Aminet were public domain or shareware, but software companies made updates and demo versions of their programs available. 

Now Aminet becomes wider by platform specific sites archiving software for AmigaOS 4, AROS or MorphOS only.

 References 

Category:Technology companies of Europe
Category:Archives