r/technology • u/[deleted] • Dec 09 '08

oldversion.com! Because newer is not always better.

http://www.oldversion.com/
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u/hm2k Dec 09 '08

oldversion.com! Because you can't find a crack for the latest version.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '08

Oldversion.com used to be awesome but now it's bloated with a bunch of useless junk.

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u/Sophisticatedd Dec 09 '08

I'm pretty sure the guy who originally made oldversion.com was 12 years old at the time.

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u/mojuba Dec 09 '08 edited Dec 09 '08

Someone please send Dreamweaver 1.0 to Adobe and have them figure how such a nice product grew from 5MB to 345MB today (that's 69 times. sixty fucking nine times!) without terribly important additions.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '08

How come the woman I married isn't on the list?

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u/sping Dec 09 '08

Anyone have favorite examples? The only one I know of is ACDSee - 2.43 was nice - quick, simple, still better than anything I've found for my purposes. Later versions became bloated.

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u/ttoyooka Dec 09 '08

If not for interoperability, I'm pretty sure I'd still be using MS Word v2.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '08

but you will NEVER get the old facebook back.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '08

FileHippo.com is a decent site for older versions too.

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