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Dead Internet Theory: Freeware and shareware once stayed downloadable because copies sat on several servers at once. When a mirror dies or silently alters the files it hosts, the "backup copy" becomes part of the problem instead of the cure.
The freeware home of Odyssey - The Legend of Nemesis preserves a complete classic Macintosh RPG, its walkthrough, development material, and the game's original commercial website as a deliberate piece of Mac gaming history.
Bimshwel's sprawling page about Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven preserves screenshots, shareware-era marketing copy, technical quirks, and years of sarcastic commentary about one of DOS gaming's stranger dungeon crawlers.
Rodent's Vengeance recreated Microsoft's 1991 Rodent's Revenge puzzle game in Java, adding modern controls, save support and cross-platform compatibility decades after the original stopped changing.
Lena Pankratova's long-running software site still presents jigsaw, solitaire and puzzle programs in the direct download-and-email style of the independent Windows shareware Web.