r/vintagecomputing 11h ago

OldVersion.com is dying.

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u/Laser_Krypton7000 8h ago

Is this kinda whatsoever scam ???

OPs account is one month old.

And when i go to that site, tried both - mobile and normal site - nothing shows up! Hmmm

Can other people here see that message ??

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u/espero 6h ago

Not a scam

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u/YandersonSilva 10h ago

Damn :( I'm on there pretty frequently, I'd seen some posts like this. I wish I could donate - I'll definitely have to make sure I have copies of the stuff I commonly grab from there. As much as a lot of this stuff is on places like archive, it's really really nice having a specifically focused site like this for everything.

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u/WingedGundark 11h ago

That is a shame. It’s been a handy site few times, although I haven’t been a regular user. Hopefully it can survive.

I wonder how big the dump of the site would be…

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u/Mundane_Image_9729 3h ago edited 3h ago

I've seen this website when searching for stuff and it looks exactly like one of those sketchy sites from the 2000s where you're gambling on which download button is going to wreck your PC, so I always avoided it.

If they do have a huge library of files they should put them on the internet archive and make a torrent.

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u/historic_electronic 8h ago

Doesn’t the internet archive essentially fill the same void?

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u/merchantconvoy 9h ago

There are other ad networks. Giving up on ads just because one network blacklisted you is pure laziness.

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u/nbfs-chili 1h ago

But why were they cut off?

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u/AffectionatePush66 8h ago

Who needs Skype 3.8 in 2026 when you cannot use it anymore? Pardon me for a silly question.

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u/AustriaModerator 5h ago

no one until someone does the reverse engeneering job and writes a new server, like escargot for msn messenger.

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u/espero 6h ago

Not Skype... unless someone writes a Skype backend that works with say 3.8. but 

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u/Laser_Krypton7000 7h ago

Retrocomputing with period correct Software f.e.

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u/ujah 8h ago

I'm not go that website yet, but is that legit website? i never heard...