Info-Mac is an online community, news aggregator and shareware file hosting service covering Apple Inc. products, including the iPhone, iPod and especially the Macintosh.
[7] Due to the low-bandwidth connections accessible by early Internet users, which made downloading large files an onerous task, Info-Mac partnered with Pacific HiTech to periodically publish CD-ROMs containing selected shareware and freeware from the archive.
[8] Licensing issues required software authors to specifically allow their contributions to be included on the CD-ROM through a statement in the file's abstract.
The CDs allowed wider distribution to users who did not have network access or could not spare the long download times associated with software applications.
Starting with the Info-Mac VI CD-ROM, the discs included the utility "Spelunker" which allowed users to search the archive in a user-friendly manner.