textfiles.com
textfiles.com is a website dedicated to preserving the digital documents that contain the history of the bulletin board system (BBS) world and various subcultures,[1] and thus providing "a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them".[2] The site categorizes and stores thousands of text files, primarily from the 1980s, but also contains some older files and some that were created well into the 1990s. A broad range of topics is presented, including anarchy, art, carding, computers, drugs, ezines, freemasonry, computer games, hacking, phreaking, politics, computer piracy, sex, and UFOs.[3] The site was created and is run by Jason Scott.
The site went online in 1998,[4] and as of 2005[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". had collected 58,227 files.[5] As of 2017[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". the site was averaging 350,000–450,000 unique visitors per month.[6] Most of the textfiles.com projects are "completionist" in outlook, attempting to gather as much information as possible within the decided scope.
The site also houses a number of sub-projects with their own hostnames. artscene.textfiles.com has a repository of computer art including crack intros, ANSI and ASCII art and other related documents; audio.textfiles.com has an archive of audio files, including prank calls, recorded telephone conferences with BBS owners and hacker radio shows; cd.textfiles.com contains an archive of 1990s shareware discs; web.textfiles.com contains files created after the World Wide Web went into mainstream use, approximately 1995; bbslist.textfiles.com aims to be a comprehensive list of all historical BBSes; timeline.textfiles.com is meant to list all important events in the history of BBSes.
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References
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External links
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- Archive of Short Talk Bulletin
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- Pages with broken file links
- Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2005
- All articles containing potentially dated statements
- Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2017
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- Bulletin board systems
- Internet properties established in 1998
- American digital libraries
- Discipline-oriented digital libraries
- Jason Scott
- Works about computer hacking