What is Aminet?
'''Aminet''' is the world's largest archive of Amiga-related software and files.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.definitions.net/definition/aminet|title=What does aminet mean?}}</ref> Aminet was originally hosted by several [[University|universities]]' FTP sites, and is now available on CD-ROM and on the web. In 1 April 2013, Aminet has 80592 packages online. == History == In January 1992, [[Switzerland|Swiss]] student Urban Müller start to work with software archive. It had been started by other members of a [[computer science]] students' club. Soon the archive became famous worldwide. In 1995 Aminet has started to distribute on monthly CD-ROMs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Redirecting to Google Groups|url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.sys.amiga.announce/j89TYGs6RhI/X7J3aDtJGJ8J|access-date=2021-09-29|website=groups.google.com}}</ref> By using a single master site for creating ftp scripts for each slave site, Aminet reduced to a bare minimum for setting up new mirror sites.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Grosse|first=Eric|date=1995-03-01|title=Repository mirroring|url=https://doi.org/10.1145/200979.201000|journal=ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software|volume=21|issue=1|pages=89–97|doi=10.1145/200979.201000|s2cid=6127610|issn=0098-3500}}</ref> Aminet also shows practical use of metadata schema by software repositories.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arquivo.pt|url=https://ipres.ischool.utoronto.ca/sites/ipres.ischool.utoronto.ca/files/iPres%202012%20Conference%20Proceedings%20Final.pdf|access-date=2021-09-29|website=arquivo.pt|archive-date=2016-01-10|archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160110002619/https://ipres.ischool.utoronto.ca/sites/ipres.ischool.utoronto.ca/files/iPres%202012%20Conference%20Proceedings%20Final.pdf|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> Reports of daily additions to this software archive were posted automatically to Usenet or could be requested as an email newsletter. Most of the programs on Aminet were [[public domain]] or shareware, but software companies made updates and demo versions of