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> Heck, even demoscence is not the same anymore. Can you expand on this? I used to be active in the demoscene 2 decades ago, but haven't really kept up lately, how have they changed?

80's and 90's it was mainly about pushing the limits of hardware (and some art). Now the demos don't look as innovative comparing to games, VFX. I think only C64 and some other artificially limited platforms still are doing very interesting stuff but it's very little of it.

When I was active in the scene 20 years ago, this was exactly what people were saying, though. :)

Re: textfiles.com

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I prefer gopher://magical.fish

Ooh nice site - it's not been around that long either. That said, Cameron Kaiser has done so much to promote gopher, I don't feel it's fair to redirect people away from his site though.

Every Gopher hole is good, but magical.fish is a great showoff as an intro :D.

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Shouldn't have stolen the color scheme from jwz. Now we have two problems.

Jason doesn't steal. He archives!

That fact may cause sites like archive.org to pass over some of the content. Ergo we need to make a P2P mirror of the content. A ZeroNet port seems about right for a site with hundreds of pages and close to 58K textfiles.

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The unibomber has nothing to do with anarchy...

The unibomber was an anarchist, therefore anarchists are bad, you don't see how that works? It's like how environmentalism is bad because of eco-terrorism and encryption is bad because Mark Zuckerberg is a jerk who has too much money and all Muslims are bad because of 9/11.

No, the unibomber was flat out not an anarchist. He did not advocate or talk about anarchy.
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