Trumpet Winsock creator made little money

omast writes: It appears that Peter Tattam, creator of Trumpet Winsock, got very little for this piece of software. For those of you who do not remember — or did not need it because were already outside the MS Windows world — Trumpet Winsock was a shareware program that provided TCP/IP functionality to Windows machines back in 1994-1995. It allowed millions to connect to the Internet back then; I was one of them.
According to the article, Tattam made very little money from the program as it was widely distributed but rarely paid for.

That's a shame.

[olsmeister]

Whether or not you are a fan of Microsoft's OS, this one piece of software introduced a hell of a lot of people to the internet.