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Winsite infoCenter: About Winsite

Welcome to WinSite

WinSite is the Planet's Largest Software Archive for
Windows shareware and trialware on the Internet.

A history lesson.
WinSite Group (formerly the CICA Windows FTP archives at Indiana University-Bloomington, online from 1991-1994) went on the air Friday, October 13th, 1995. Despite the superstitious date, we emerged from the temporary accomodations generously provided by Indiana University's Center for Innovative Computer Applications (CICA), to a full T1 Internet connection (which we easily saturated), with three times the processing power and twice the disk space.

Ah, those were the days. Today we have rack-mounted servers, gigabytes of disk storage in disk arrays, a diesel-powered backup generator, and all sorts of bandwidth. It's enough to give us grey hairs.

The WinSite archives receives its careful management and gentle care from its original founders, and its many, many friends. We are pleased to continue serving the authoring community by sticking to our CORE mission: providing an easy, free, and strong online presence for the promotion of and advocate for the best Windows shareware, freeware, and trialware on the Internet.

What's here?
With the continuing support of the shareware, freeware developer community, we present an amazing array of software. Games, utilities. Things that make your printer print better, and tools and utilities to help you computer better. Our collection is carefully selected. Checked for viruses. Approved by humans, for the use of humans.

We are proud to serve as a digital "host" to some some of Bloomington's most creative people and their projects. The Association of Monroe County Taxpayers, Indiana Biodiesel, St. Charles School, and many others. Let us know if you are interested in our services.

We can't do this alone.
We need your support. (Show your support--consider making an easy, secure donation through PayPal to help our efforts. Or, build your own WinSite CDROM--select the packages, burn them on CD. Mail them to your house.) We also have various advertising opportunities on our site. Authors, give your package the attention it deserves. Let us design a campaign for your software.

Please contact us for more information.

Legal Stuff
We hate to say it, but we have to. There are some unscrupulous individuals out there who try to make our hardwork their own. Therefore, our crack legal team has advised us that the entire contents of this archive and what we push to mirror sites and WinSite.com are copyrighted as a collective work (compilation copyright) under the International and United States Copyright laws. The copying, reproduction, publication, re-sale or re-distribution of any part of this service including directory and file listings (except for personal use) is prohibited, unless expressly authorized in writing. Some material in the WinSite collections may be copyrighted by others, and their copyrights supecede our rights to that material. Quite simply put, it's our collection, and the specific arangement thereof, that constitutes our intellectual property.

(A compilation copyright is granted when an organization lawfully collects or acquires information and organizes it in a way that adds value to the collection. A compilation copyright grants to the owner certain rights, such as the right to control further distribution of the compilation of works.)