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What Is Shareware, and Why Was It So Popular in the 1990s?


What Is Shareware, and Why Was It So Popular in the 1990s?
Benj Edwards
It’s a crazy idea: Give your software away for free and hope that people like it enough to send you money. That was the idea behind shareware, a popular commercial software model in the 1980s and 1990s. Here’s what made it unique and successful at the time.
The Origins of Shareware
Historians usually credit three men with the creation of the shareware concept to varying degrees.
In 1982, Andrew Fluegelman created a telecommunications program called PC-Talk on his new IBM PC and began sharing it with his friends. Before long, he realized that he could put a special message inside the software asking for a $25 donation in return for future updates to the program. (Fluegelman called his concept “freeware,” but he reportedly later trademarked the term, leading to its limited use in the industry. The term was redefined after his death in 1985.) ....

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30 Years of Vorticons: How Commander Keen Changed PC Gaming


30 Years of Vorticons: How Commander Keen Changed PC Gaming
id Software
On Dec. 14, 1990, Apogee Software released
Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons. It was the first in a series of PC shareware games that brought fluid, Mario-like platforming to the PC. It also launched legendary developer id Software. Here’s why it was special.
Keen: Playful Console Magic on the PC
The first Commander Keen game,
Invasion of the Vorticons, is split into three episodes designed for PCs with MS-DOS. In the first episode, you play as Billy Blaze (aka Commander Keen), a kid who must travel to Mars to repel an invasion of dog-like aliens called Vorticons. ....

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