Old mobile games and apps from TestFlight, which allow developers to share in-development versions of their apps, have been discovered in the Internet Archive. as reported by eurogamer. The 1.2 TB cache, known as the “Tera leak,” could be a huge problem for preservationists, especially since many older apps are no longer available for download in any format.
According to the X (formerly Twitter) account, the apps date from “approximately” 2012 to 2015. it focuses on leaks. The app seems to have been collected from the TestFlight website in early 2015, but was probably deleted from the cloud storage where it was configured incorrectly. Wayback Machine’s links include mentions of his CloudFront service on Amazon and his S3 service for AWS.
People have already put together ways to more easily categorize archived apps, and there’s even a Discord community digging through the archives. You can’t go back in time by loading one of these older apps on your current phone because the package doesn’t work on modern phones. But I’m very interested in what people find when they organize things.What fun tidbits are hidden in older versions of angry birds or cut the rope?