A website from over 20 years ago is preserved in a folder of text files

While looking for something else, I came across a folder on my Mac called “free for X”. In it were a bunch of plain text HTML files which together made up a Mac freeware website that was the predecessor to thriftmac . So I uploaded it to a server, opened the home page and sure enough there it was — an entire website from over 20 years ago still fully functional. The links to outside websites…