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Jason Scott, proprietor of textfiles.com.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/textfiles; my proof: https://keybase.io/textfiles/sigs/3suXIN5AXKLC-jqt-_mr7ovc-jYpj6fH8vrIZOJNXdM ]

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textfiles··on In Which My Situation Is Discussed
Always appreciate your efforts, Tonte.
textfiles··on Microsoft makes Zork open-source
Neither of those guesses are the case.
textfiles··on What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
What unusually crafted prose for Hackernews.
textfiles··on Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of videos being given away for free
Yeah, it's a nail-biter.
textfiles··on Rebecca Heineman has died
Some funds were used to cover treatments. She has arrangements with her family, and this fundraiser helps.
textfiles··on 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
Back at you.
textfiles··on 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
For the purposes of ballpark, between 150-200 petabytes of unique data, probably on the lowish end of that last I checked.
textfiles··on Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
Hope everyone's enjoying the Internet Archive!
textfiles··on Romhack.ing's Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available
The internet archive has a little over 100 employees and a smallish team to deal with issues. I'm no manager, just the person who helps folks with software upload issues.

Also, you should always mail the ceo of a bank if you get rejected for a loan if you think it was done unfairly.

textfiles··on Romhack.ing's Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available
Update, we're good.
textfiles··on Romhack.ing's Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available
Hi everyone. Jason Scott, software curator at the internet archive.

I'm sure I'll get in touch with these folks to understand details, but I just wanted to make it known that if you do encounter what you think are false spam or malware issues, you can always email me directly at jscott at archive.org.

textfiles··on Lists and Lists: Basics of Lisp through interactive fiction (1996)
Nelson refused to be interviewed and by refused, I mean, even refused to tell me no - I had to have intermediaries tell me.
textfiles··on Internet Artifacts
http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/
textfiles··on Internet Artifacts
There are members of the cult who took the sacrifice to not follow the others to the comet and maintain the cult's presence and memory on the doomed Earth. They give interviews now and then.
textfiles··on Internet Artifacts
It's not THAT rare to see a working version.

http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/netscape/

textfiles··on Ask HN: What blogs, researchers, 'thinkers' do you follow?
finger guns
textfiles··on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now
This argument is stupid.
textfiles··on Internet Archive Services are "temporarily offline"
The co-founder, Jason Scott, retired from Archive Team years ago and stays around as a cheeleader and advisor. He is employed by Internet Archive.
textfiles··on Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died
I made the BBS Documentary (www.bbsdocumentary.com).

My goal had been to do a documentary on the BBS Experience, working from interviews with flexible friends and nearby folks, and then work up to the "Big Ones", the names who had been in my teenage mind when I ran a BBS, like Ward Christensen, Chuck Forsberg, Randy Suess, and others. But then I had someone from Chicago checking in to make sure I wasn't going to skip over the important parts the midwest had told in the story. So it was that a month into production, barely nailing down how I would fly post 9/11 with a studio worth of equipment, that I found myself at CACHE (Chicago Area Computer Hobbyist Exchange) and meeting Ward himself.

They say "Never meet your heroes." I think it's more accurate to say "Have the best heroes" or "Be the kind of person a hero would want to meet." Ward was warm, friendly, humble, and very, VERY accomodating to a first-time filmmaker. I appreciated, fundamentally, the boost that he gave me and my work, knowing I was sitting on hours of footage from The Guy.

There were many other The Guy and The Lady and The Groups for BBS: The Documentary, but Ward's humble-ness about his creation and what it did to the world was what made sure I never overhyped or added layers of drama on the work. Ward was amazing and I'll miss him.

textfiles··on Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died
Someone should get right on that.
textfiles··on From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction
Always appreciate the GET LAMP shoutouts. - Jason Scott
textfiles··on The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
Anyway, I'm sorry if some people are reading this hastily written blog entry to seem like the archive is taking credit for the process of discovery being done by people. The phrase likely does not mean definitely and perhaps I should have used a different word when I wrote the entry. But the fact remains that the wayback machine is the only place you can see the image in the context of its original website, and that is only happening because the archive is doing such a general crawl. That's all I wanted to get across, all hail the wayback machine, have a great day.
textfiles··on The Backrooms of the Internet Archive
See you all in the backrooms
textfiles··on The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack
Hackernews, it never disappoints.
textfiles··on The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack
No.
textfiles··on The Most Interesting Uninteresting Thing
You should ask an LLM to summarize it for you.
textfiles··on A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published
From the article, it appears the big sadness for the author was he wrote back and said he was happy to work with Kubrick to discuss getting it to where he was more comfortable with it, Kubrick never responded, and then sent lawyers. That's all that's rough for the writer, here.
textfiles··on I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals
<bumps fist against heart>
textfiles··on I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals
Hi, Jason Scott here. Just stopping in to say I'm surprised how much of this thread is about wood furniture.
textfiles··on I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals
ice burn
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