The first version of Fetch was a desk accessory. Due to its status as an official product of an educational institution, Fetch was always free for educational users. Fetch was maintained and updated as a Dartmouth software project and was eventually released as shareware, becoming very popular in the Macintosh community. At the time, it was intended primarily for internal college use.
Fetch was created in the summer of 1989 by Jim Matthews, an employee of Dartmouth College.
