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<b>MegaSWF</b> was a media file hoster that started off as ShockWave Flash hoster, similar to [[Newgrounds]].
'''MegaSWF''' was a media file hoster that started off as ShockWave Flash (swf file) hoster, similar to [[Newgrounds]] years earlier.


MegaSWF escaped the radar of ArchiveTeam entirely and perished in silence.<ref name="Flippa">2 attemmpts to sell the domain on Flippa.com: [https://flippa.com/110674-megaswf-com 110674] [https://flippa.com/3854759-megaswf-com 3854759]</ref>
MegaSWF was a big repository of amateur-made minigames, fangames and flash files that Newgrounds does not have. Like on Newgrounds, SWF files could be played back (previewed) on the site and downloaded. <!-- Not verified yet: Guests could upload files without signing in. --> MegaSWF later turned into an universal file host (also used for EXE, AVI, WMV, MP4), but still focussed on SWF minigames.


MegaSWF was a big repository of amateur-made minigames, fangames and flash files that Newgrounds does not have. <!-- Not verified yet: Guests could upload files without signing in. --> <br />
For a fee of $5 per month, they also offered a high-bandwidth “cloud hosting” plan which could be used by webmasters to embed content on their website.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20140603063407/http://megaswf.com/ MegaSWF.com Wayback crawl of 2014-06-03 06:34:07]</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20140625055355/http://megaswf.com/upgrade MegaSWF.com/upgrade Wayback crawl of 2014-06-25 05:53:55]</ref>
MegaSWF later turned into an universal file host (also used for EXE, AVI, WMV, MP4), but still focussed on SWF minigames.


MegaSWF escaped the radar of ArchiveTeam entirely and perished in silence.<ref name="Flippa">2 attempts to sell the domain “megaswf.com” on Flippa.com: [https://flippa.com/110674-megaswf-com 110674] [https://flippa.com/3854759-megaswf-com 3854759]</ref>
The website went down at some timepoint after [http://web.archive.org/web/20150208114112/http://megaswf.com:80/ February 8th 2015] before [http://web.archive.org/web/20150728134838/http://megaswf.com/ July 28th 2015].


== Archival ==
== Archival ==
[[File:MegaSWF-20080726100435.png|thumb|right|First Wayback capture of [http://www.MegaSWF.com MegaSWF.com's homepage] at [http://web.archive.org/web/20080726100435/MegaSWF.com 2008/07/26 on 10-04-35].]]
[[File:MegaSWF-20080726100435.png|thumb|right|First [[Wayback]] capture of [http://www.MegaSWF.com MegaSWF.com's homepage] at [http://web.archive.org/web/20080726100435/MegaSWF.com 2008/07/26 on 10h:04m:35s].]]
MegaSWF is [http://Web.Archive.org/web/*/MegaSWF.com partially but incompletely available on the Wayback Machine.]
MegaSWF is [http://Web.Archive.org/web/*/MegaSWF.com partially but incompletely available on the Wayback Machine].
 
The home page has initially been captured by the Wayback Machine's crawler on [http://web.archive.org/web/20080726100435/http://megaswf.com/ Saturday, July 26th 2008, 10h:04m:35s UTC.]


== References ==
== References ==
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* {{URL|https://sites.google.com/site/vuhuyenanhphuong/file-hosting-service/mega-swf|Vietnamese site on Sites.Google.com  ''“Vuhuyenanhphuong”'' contains some information about MegaSWF.}} <!-- Not used as reference yet, but linked because it appears to  contain potentially useful and historical information. -->

Latest revision as of 16:19, 15 May 2019

MegaSWF
MegaSWF-20120712081326.png
URL http://www.MegaSWF.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Offline
Archiving status Lost (partially saved by the Wayback Machine)
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

MegaSWF was a media file hoster that started off as ShockWave Flash (swf file) hoster, similar to Newgrounds years earlier.

MegaSWF was a big repository of amateur-made minigames, fangames and flash files that Newgrounds does not have. Like on Newgrounds, SWF files could be played back (previewed) on the site and downloaded. MegaSWF later turned into an universal file host (also used for EXE, AVI, WMV, MP4), but still focussed on SWF minigames.

For a fee of $5 per month, they also offered a high-bandwidth “cloud hosting” plan which could be used by webmasters to embed content on their website.[1][2]

MegaSWF escaped the radar of ArchiveTeam entirely and perished in silence.[3]

The website went down at some timepoint after February 8th 2015 before July 28th 2015.

Archival

MegaSWF is partially but incompletely available on the Wayback Machine.

References