Fred Fish (Fish Disks)

Re:Fred Fish (Fish Disks) by tejtm on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:30PM (#37166749)

Aminet!

Recall it as the largest source of free software on the planet in its time.

And it is still up!

https://aminet.net/misc/fish

thanks for all the fish, truly formative experiences.

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Re:Fred Fish (Fish Disks) by mgk123 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:36PM (#37167637)

amiga.physik.unizh.ch, wasn't that an A3000UX at one point???

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Re:Fred Fish (Fish Disks) by acherion on Thursday August 17, 2023 @07:31PM (#37169704)

First entry on their History page says it was: http://wiki.aminet.net/index.php/The_history_of_Aminet

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Re:Fred Fish (Fish Disks) by anthk on Thursday August 17, 2023 @06:03PM (#37168796)

A fun thing it's that you can acces SSL sites with AmiSSL, and even Gemini clients (something like a device-independent Gopher with mandatory TLS) work.

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