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PR: TUCOWS OS/2 Section Official Press Release
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Date: 24 May 1997 23:14:17 GMT
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TUCOWS Gets WARPed!
TORONTO - May 23, 1997 TUCOWS, The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software,
has already earned a Site of the Day mention on the Warp City site
(http://www.warpcity.com/) for its new OS/2 section, despite the fact that the
new area has been online only a few days.
"No official announcements had been released yet, but already the OS/2
community is sitting up and taking notice," says Brad Barclay, chief designer
of the TUCOWS OS/2 section and OS/2 Development Director at ComputerLink
Online Inc. "This collection is unique, we aim to make it the most
comprehensive collections of Internet applications for OS/2 on the Web."
"There really is nothing like it," says Scott Swedorski, president and founder
of the popular Web site, which attracts more than a million users a day. "Brad
is a tireless promoter of OS/2 and we're very pleased to have him working with
us on the section. This section now make TUCOWS #1 for Internet software in
all platforms. We are the only OS/2 site that actually mirrors this software
on over 200 sites worldwide."
Brad Barclay is the chief designer of the TUCOWS OS/2 section and OS/2
Development Director at ComputerLink Online Inc. He is currently working on
completing his Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science at
Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Started in 1994 by Scott Swedorski as a public service to new Internet users,
TUCOWS has earned the reputation of being the highest quality Internet
software distribution site on the Internet. The World Wide Web site has
received over 40 Awards and Citations, including PC Magazine Top 100, PC
Computing, Yahoo! Pick of the Week, MSN Pick of the Week. TUCOWS has expanded
to over 200 Affiliate Sites on 6 Continents, in over 50 Countries world-wide,
serving over 350 million page accesses per month, making TUCOWS one of the 5
busiest sites on the Internet.
For more information about TUCOWS, or to obtain a complimentary Media
Evaluation TUCOWS CD ROM, contact:
Brandi Jasmine
media@tucows.com
(416) 233-7150
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From the OS/2 WARP v4 Desktop of Brad Barclay.
E-Mail: os2@idirect.com WWW: http://warp.idirect.com
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