This certainly seems like an appropriate place for an historian to be 😉 Ahh, but so much more, OldVersion is a website that is collecting links to older version of mainstream software applications under the principle that olde ris not always better. This one just had to happen. I have often thought about how I craved the very first verson of Microsoft Word for my 512K Mac. Oh what an exciting day when Microsoft introduced an industrial strength app to put MacWrite to the test. The wonder of this was that the application fit on a single 400K micro floppy (as they were technically referred to). If you had the single 400K drive you were subject to endless swapping of the system disk and the application disk, but oh, the power of the application and I restate…all on a 400K floppy. Now of course the average install of MS Word is somewhere in the range of 400Mb…and you know… that little 400K app had 80% of the everyday functionality of the bloatware we use today. This is all to say that I heartily agree that newer is not always better and a site that offer us the opportunity to use compact, efficient apps before they lost sight if what they were designed to accomplished is a very good thing.
