A note to Tucows Downloads visitors:
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As Papa Louie’s best helper, it’s your job to cook and stack burgers. Start by choosing a character and entering your name. A brief and optional tutorial will explain the basics. After that, you’re ready to don the apron and start cooking! In Papa's Burgeria, you must work your way past 3 work stations to prepare those delicious burgers. Papa's Burgeria is open for business and customers are ready to take a bite from the town's juiciest burgers. The sizzling sounds of the burger patties on the grill will make everyone’s stomach growl in anticipation! So prepare the buns, cut the tomatoes, and fire up the cast iron grill plate! With you manning the counter, no one will leave here with an empty stomach!
We have made the difficult decision to retire the Tucows Downloads site. We’re pleased to say that much of the software and other assets that made up the Tucows Downloads library have been transferred to our friends at the Internet Archive for posterity.
The shareware downloads bulletin board system (BBS) that would become Tucows Downloads was founded back in 1993 on a library computer in Flint, MI. What started as a place for people in the know to download software became the place to download software on the burgeoning Internet. Far more quickly than anyone could have imagined.
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A lot has changed since those early years. Tucows has grown and evolved as a business. It’s been a long time since Tucows has been TUCOWS, which stood for The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software.
- Papa's BurgeriaPlay Papa's Burgeria online For FREE! - Your back in the kitchen to run Papa Louies new burger shop! - Your back in the kitchen to run Papa Louies new burger shop! New customers and old favorites will visit the Burgeria, and you will have to take orders, grill burgers, add toppings and serve the sandwiches to the waiting customers.
- Papa's Burgeria will make any delicious hamburger or cheeseburger to order, and it just so happens his customer's are as picky as they come. In this frantic sequel to Papa's Pizzeria, you play as either Marty or Rita, cooking, building, and serving the cr.
- Head back to the kitchen to run Papa Louies new burger shop! New customers and old favorites will visit the Burgeria, and you will have to take orders, grill burgers, add toppings, and serve the sandwiches to the waiting customers.
Today, Tucows is the second-largest domain name registrar in the world behind Go Daddy and the largest wholesaler of domain names in the world with customers like Shopify and other global website builder platforms. Hover offers domain names and email at retail to help people brand their life online. OpenSRS (and along the way our acquisitions of Enom, Ascio and EPAG) are the SaaS platforms upon which tens of thousands of customers have built their own domain registration businesses, registering tens of millions of domains on behalf of their customers. Ting Internet is building fiber-optic networks all over the U.S. At the same time, we’re building the Mobile Services Enabler SaaS platform that is powering DISH’s entry into the US mobile market.
Point is, we’re keeping busy.
For the past several years, history, well sentimentality, has been the only reason to keep Tucows Downloads around. We talked about shutting the site down before. Most seriously in 2016 when instead, we decided to go ad-free, keeping the site up as a public service.
Today is different. Tucows Downloads is old. Old sites are a maintenance challenge and therefore a risk. Maintaining the Tucows Downloads site pulls people away from the work that moves our businesses forward.
Tucows Downloads has had an incredible run. Retiring it is the right move but that doesn’t alter the fact that it will always hold a special place in hearts and our story. We’re thankful to the thousands of software developers who used Tucows Downloads to get their software in front of millions of people, driving billions of downloads over more than 25 years.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Elliot Noss
CEO, Tucows
A note to Tucows Downloads Authors/Developers
If you’re a developer who used the Tucows Author Resource Center (ARC) as part of your software dissemination, to buy code signing or other services, we’re happy to help with the transition.
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Any certificates purchased through ARC remain valid. If you’re looking to buy or renew code signing certificates, we invite you to go straight to the source; Sectigo was our supplier and will be happy to be yours too.
Feel free to reach out to us at help@tucows.com if we can help with anything at all.