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Peter's web site
I might just donate to the guy. I used Trumpet Winsock on a LOT of machines!While talking on a thread at Hacker News, I offhandedly made a joke at Trumpet Winsock's expense.
In a comment below mine, nailer mentioned that the creator of Trumpet Winsock saw very little money from one of the most widely-used pieces of shareware then in existence. Magazines and ISPs distributed the full version of his software but very few paid for it.
My first experience connecting to the internet was using Windows 3.1, Trumpet Winsock and Netscape 1.22 (I think) to browse the nascent web. Later I wiled away (too many) hours on IRC.
At the time I didn't have two 50c coins to rub together. Today, partly due to that early internet exposure, I am a well-paid software engineer.
In the same thread I have alluded to you will find that we identified Peter Tattam and two of us (badmonkey0001 and I) contacted him independently.
At our prompting Peter has set up a Paypal account where you can make donations. I invite you to chip in to reward a man whose work let so many of us open the door, for the first time, to an important part of our lives.
Thanks, Peter.
Update: Come on reddit, HN is thrashing you at the donations game!
Update 2: I've created a very simple site you can send to your friends. Thanks for Trumpet Winsock.
Donate to payments@petertattam.com
