Info-Mac
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| URL | http://www.info-mac.org/ |
| Type of site | Virtual community |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Dan Palka |
| Created by | Ed Pattermann |
| Launched | 1984 |
| Current status | Open |
Info-Mac was the first virtual community covering the Macintosh computer. An historical archive by Google Groups dates to June of 1984, six months after the release of the first Macintosh 128K. Info-Mac comprised of the Info-Mac Archive, a user-submitted collection of nearly all contemporary freeware and shareware available for the Macintosh, and the Info-Mac Digest, an electronic mailing list. At its height, the Info-Mac Digest was read daily by several thousand people, and was mirrored in the Usenet group comp.sys.mac.digest. The Info-Mac Archive was the centralized collection of Macintosh software with over 100 mirror sites located around the world. For a time after the commercialization of the Internet, popular software download sites, like CNET's Shareware.com, were in fact mirrors of the Info-Mac Archive.[1] Info-Mac closed after 21 years in December of 2005, but was re-launched in December 2007 with much of the old content as well as all-new features.[2]
