Man AIDS was scary in the 90s. Fun to see the same conspiracy theories come back for Covid.
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#62For those who remember or interested, there is a similar site that catalogs the ANSI BBS art scene at http://sixteencolors.net/
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#63Hmmm, why doesn't the site have https?
Because there are still plenty of valid use cases for HTTP.
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#64All are welcome, enjoy the site.
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#65I have a box of 3.25" disks from my BBS days. I need to take a look at those and see if I can get any text files from them. This archive is an amazing glimpse at my youth.
From the site:
> If you've got some old disks that have files you never did anything with, please consider sending them or a copy of them to me. That stuff is precious; and it is rare; and it is finite. That's what matters.
I'd suggest emailing him at jason@textfiles.com . He has the equipment to transfer most types of disk, and can also guide you through the process if you don't want to send the disks away.
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#66I learnt about coffee and how to brew it from the ancient coffeefaq.txt file, copied via sneakernet and usenet, back in the early 90s. The text is totally valuable, and of course still valid. It has found its permanent home on text files.com, and that is so great. http://cd.textfiles.com/group42/FAQS/ACAFFEIN.TXT
> Fact: Unless you are buying some major debris, bean quality is not very important That doesn't reflect my experience. If you buy fancy single origin beans, the taste varies wildly from region to region. I think within a region the taste differences mostly come down to roasting, but an Ethiopian and Kenyan coffee aren't going to taste the same at all. To me the best quickie coffee explainer I've seen is https://stat…
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> Fact: Unless you are buying some major debris, bean quality is not very important, as compared to 1-3 and 5.
I’d wager that it doesn’t matter how nice your beans are, if they were roasted a long time ago, ground a long time ago, and brewed with unclean equipment and poor quality water the bean quality matters not at all.
Even then, the file explains:
> Fact: The prepackaged stuff you buy in supermarkets is major debris, (in general).
So if you are using supermarket coffee, you can at least grind it yourself and try to use decent water.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you for real? This website has been around and has looked more or less the same since the late 90s. The claim that jwz invented the green and black color scheme is probably the strangest thing I’ll read all day. Also, what’s the first problem?
> Also, what’s the first problem? It's a reference to jwz's saying "some people, when they have a problem think 'I know, I'll solve it with regular expressions!'. Now they have two problems" (not an exact quote). The user posting this makes me think the whole post was a joke ;)
Thank you.
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#69I have a box of 3.25" disks from my BBS days. I need to take a look at those and see if I can get any text files from them. This archive is an amazing glimpse at my youth.
From the site: > If you've got some old disks that have files you never did anything with, please consider sending them or a copy of them to me. That stuff is precious; and it is rare; and it is finite. That's what matters. I'd suggest emailing him at jason@textfiles.com . He has the equipment to transfer most types of disk, and can also guide you through the process if you don't want to send the disks away.
It's also important to do this because old disks tend to lose their data over time. To the point where folks will take raw magnetic flux images from old media, just to have a higher chance of getting some data back.
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#70The owner of the site gave a talk at DEFCON 17, "That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY&ab_channel=Chris...
He also gave us the brilliant BBS: The Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddbe9OuJLU
GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary (shot in 1080p)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU
and (apart from his many talks) his podcast "Jason Scott talks his way out of it" which is just gem after gem of documented tech ephemera.
It's baffingly hard to quantify how many people he (and all the other great people at the Internet Archive) has affected with his bullheaded conservation efforts.