It's easy to forget just how long people have been making great apps and games for the iPhone's App Store, but it's also easy forget just how many of those bits and bytes are no longer available for download. Some of them were updated and older versions became obsolete, while some just disappeared for whatever reason. But for a lucky few — more than a few, in fact — there might be a lifeline.
That lifeline comes in the form of a giant leak, dubbed 'teraleak,' that has seen thousands of iPhone apps and games appear on the Internet Archive. They're from a period of years between 2012 and 2015 and appear to have been TestFlight beta builds that were stored on incorrectly configured servers that opened them up to scraping. And now they're all available for download for free.
