Love the anarchy section: http://www.textfiles.com/anarchy/
Reminds me of Temple of the Screaming Electron. Spent lots of time reading text files on there as an early teen.
Thankfully I didn't blow my face up/go to jail for terrorism.
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#72All are welcome, enjoy the site.
This is amazing! So much nostalgia looking at the BBS List.
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The one's from 80's and 90's just grew up and dot-com era really gave more opportunities for the creative programmers. Younger people will never write on many of the topics in these files because it will land you in jail FAST. It used to be more anonymity back then. Phreaking, warez scenes were alive and well. Heck, even demoscence is not the same anymore. Anyways if you are into coding/hacking, working for a startup…
There was also a lot of motivation to phreak and trade warez due to a lack of things we'd simply take for granted nowadays, such as always-on connectivity and a widespread free-software and free-culture scene. It's a lot harder to explain the whole "anarchy" obsession that shows up in the files, though. Maybe that kind of loser attitude would make you "cool" and "a tough guy" back in the 1980s and the 1990s. Or at le…
I wrote some of those anarchist files in the 80s, but most of them came from The Anarchist’s Cookbook. Look it up, you can still buy used copies.
That attitude was indeed cool and definitely not loser back then. It was “anti-The-Man”, much like the Anonymous movement whenever that was... 10 years ago?
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#74From http://www.textfiles.com/apple/iigsprob.hum
> It can hardly be beleived that Apple would put out an overpriced product that works halfway and not be willing to fix it or at least offer our money back.
Ha, just you wait.
(Former IIGS owner, owner of many Apple devices before and since.)
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#75Has the community of people who wrote documents like this just dried up and vanished? Or have they all moved somewhere underground I can't find?
You should poke around in gopher. Has a very dial-up BBS feel, complete with FIGlets. Here is a nice web proxy: https://gopher.commons.host/
For some more nostalgia, check out:
http://telehack.com/
"You can telnet directly to Telehack on the regular telnet port of 23.
"Open a command shell and type
telnet telehack.com
"See http://telehack.com/telehack.html for more information."
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I was just talking to a friend about this. It seems like the old web is vanishing. I miss the random, often times horribly designed custom pages people used to setup. I hope we’re looking in the wrong place.
It's there but I think it kind of gets lost as people lost interest in ad-hoc curation. If we arrive at a page today it's normally because some large entity with a commercial incentive brought us there via a search engine or a social network. Meanwhile, people no longer really host link pages or curate webrings. It feels like a bait and switch to me because search used to yield more interesting results, and social ne…
Search used to rely on formalized 'ad-hoc' curation in the form of DMOZ and other web directories. Without it, SEO has become the main influence on results and search-engines are now heavily focusing on novelty and recency in the hope of turning up something that the user was actually looking for. Of course 'novelty' is the polar opposite of something like textfiles, or of many well-established online resources.
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> 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…
Full quote: > 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…
Water is a huge factor that I neglected for a while. It finally hit me once someone told me that coffee is mostly water, and your coffee is only as good as your water. Makes complete sense, but I had never thought about it. A simple Britta filter goes a long way.
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#78Has the community of people who wrote documents like this just dried up and vanished? Or have they all moved somewhere underground I can't find?
I was just talking to a friend about this. It seems like the old web is vanishing. I miss the random, often times horribly designed custom pages people used to setup. I hope we’re looking in the wrong place.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
Full quote: > 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…
What does that even mean "debris" in this context? I tried to google "major debris" and it only returned this text. Why would I deliberately buy stuff with a bunch of junk in it?
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#80Has the community of people who wrote documents like this just dried up and vanished? Or have they all moved somewhere underground I can't find?
So I started and maintained a text BASIC programming fanzine back in 1994-1996 and.. I'm still in the business producing weekly newsletters for programmers 25 years later, except now it's my job! :-)