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I'm the guy in the shirt!

There's a bad setting on my virtual host. I'm in conversation with the support team about getting it tuned up.

Hurrah!

Well, ASCII is a different box than textfiles.com. I suppose I could host the site on that box, but I have a rule with the original textfiles.com that no scripts are being run on i…

Yes, I've taken a long walk and spoken with my team and I'm emotionally fine with the situation.

Classics never go out of style.

He just really, really, really committed himself.

I don't have to do anything.

Shout out to everyone in this thread who seem unable to understand a club might have three unrelated acts on, so each performance is called a "concert" under this collection. Aadam…

Why mess with perfection?

Badlibrarian, you had a very fun run. You got to be 30% correct with Internet Archive criticism and enjoy unfettered, sometimes problematic commentary with little pushback. Maybe y…

The assumptions are still pretty zesty, now you just made them longer.

There was a lot of renovation. One day they fired up the pipe organ (which still works) inside the building as well as the servers and the transformer for the street blew up. That …

We've had showdowns with lawyers, governments, hackers and spammers, but I'm not sure how we'll stand up against perception.

Fridays at about 1pm, we give tours.

It's an AI-generated article. It's going to be pretty terrible.

This seems like a lot of zesty made-up assumptions. And a lot of non-profits would be very very surprised to hear that once you cross the threshold of $9,999,999 costs, you are a b…

Here's some photos I took a long time ago. https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/7215763372220...

Show me the faster wayback machine we are competing against.

It is on my desk to fix this soon.

They absolutely are.

We absolutely lap them with many, many more petabytes of material. But archive.today is also not doing speculative or multiple scheduled captures of the amount of sites that archiv…

What do you want some pictures of?

We've hired a few dozen people over the past couple of years. We think they're pretty talented.