Old bits...

I've mentioned before that I save "old bits".

Why? Well, a lot of hard work went into them by someone. There is a lot of good software and wisdom encoded in them.

And I'm not the only one.

Back "in the day", the BBS ruled the roost. Fidonet allowed the interchange of files between computers before the internet became easily accessable.

And the BBS' had files. Lots of them. Some good, many bad, and all of them the apple of someone's eye.

Fortunately, they are not all lost. Places like textfiles.com keep the old stuff alive. And even archive the CD's full of files that were published in the 90's.

Are they what you're looking for for your new PC? Probably not. But there is wisdom deep in the piles of bits...