Because I want to make sure I"m downloading from the correct site. So here, you could download firefox, winamp, openoffice and all these programs. That is still recommended?

Copy-paste that command into the Command Prompt (or Windows Terminal) on a new PC and Windows will do all the work, downloading the programs from the web and installing them for you.

One thing you can count on with computers (which includes smartphones, tablets and iPads) is that things will always change; they will never stay the same for very long.

There will be programs such as file sharing IMs where you have access to your buddies? shared folder (WASTE) and Freenet based P2P programs.