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Post by catalogia »

greenshackle2 wrote: post #102
jjice wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maybe I'm missing something but I figured that since I drink my tap water and it tastes fine to me, it should be fine in my coffee.

Tap water quality is very variable. In many parts of Florida for instance, tap water tastes and smells like burnt matches; tons of sulfur in that water. It's still safe to drink, but I expect people living in regions with tap water like that would get better results with bottled or filtered water.

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by CalRobert »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #83
CalRobert wrote: post #8

An important piece of the early internet. I remember when my brief submission made it to the last issue of HOE (Hogs of Ecstasy) and felt like a small celebrity.

This wasn’t even internet. Dial-up. Hardly anyone used TCP/IP or FTP or telnet ( only universities ). At home we all used software with protocols like XMODEM, YMODEM, and ZMODEM for file transfer. Everything else was plain ASCII over serial connections with modems between two devices.

A very good catch! Thanks. Indeed this was not the Internet.

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Post by greenshackle2 »

catalogia wrote: post #111
greenshackle2 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm missing something but I figured that since I drink my tap water and it tastes fine to me, it should be fine in my coffee.

Tap water quality is very variable. In many parts of Florida for instance, tap water tastes and smells like burnt matches; tons of sulfur in that water. It's still safe to drink, but I expect people living in regions with tap water like that would get better results with bottled or filtered water.

Right, that's perfectly understandable, I'm just wondering if people think good quality tap water needs to be filtered too, e.g. maybe minerals affect extraction.

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Post by Scuds »

The ones that are formatted to 40 columns in all caps because THATS WHAT THE ORIGINAL APPLE II COULD DO are charming to no end.

http://www.textfiles.com/apple/wiztips4.txt

I wish I was five years older and to have experienced the Apple II bbs era instead of getting an old hand me down //c in the early 90's and not having the cash for a modem.

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Post by redivysoft »

hrdwdmrbl wrote: post #34
reitzensteinm wrote: post #6

The 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...

The owner is also a totally great guy

Yep, he took the time to answer questions from highschool me more than a decade ago and he was very friendly.

I'm glad everyone else seems to have had positive interactions with him also.

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Post by na85 »

zozbot234 wrote: post #46
myth_drannon wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You're looking back at those anarchist leanings through two decades' worth of post-9/11 pro-nanny-state propaganda. And in some cases those writings predate the fall of the Soviet Union.

The world was a different place back then. I was 7 in August of 91, too young to remember or have experienced much of the world but I do remember the culture of pre-9/11 internet being starkly different from that of today.

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by zozbot234 »

na85 wrote: post #116
zozbot234 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You're looking back at those anarchist leanings through two decades' worth of post-9/11 pro-nanny-state propaganda. And in some cases those writings predate the fall of the Soviet Union. The world was a different place back then. I was 7 in August of 91, too young to remember or have experienced much of the world but I do remember the culture of pre-9/11 internet being starkly different from that of today.

> And in some cases those writings predate the fall of the Soviet Union.

That would explain some things, then. Indeed, those writings have a lot more in common with the pre-Soviet "nihilist" movement than anything relating to anarchism as it would be understood today.

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Post by shon »

All hail Jason Scott. As may have said, this guy has brought so much joy by preserving and highlighting all of this content.

I've known Jason for years from the old scene and was one of the old school original (uberspace) textfiles mirrors, which was hosted on a modified Cobalt Cube running NetBSD from my 22nd story apartment (Golden Gate Apartments) in SF, which at the time, happened to include free internet on a full T1 back in 2002!

@textfiles, thank you for continuing to bring joy to the world. Personally I've most recently enjoyed your MAME archives as I'be been building Retropie boxes from Arcade1Up cabs to play the classics with my daughter. Thanks for all you do.

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by the137 »

textfiles wrote: post #64

All are welcome, enjoy the site.

One of the few sites that I'll always remember discovering. Around a decade ago i wandered over in the middle of the night. Almost in awe I was there until the sun came up.

Re: textfiles.com

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Post by lwb »

saagarjha wrote: post #97
londons_explore wrote: post #91

Could we have this over https? My internet connection blocks most pages of the site as "Adult content", presumably because it has bomb making instructions on, and the UK government is tetchy about that kind of thing nowadays.

If you are an adult, why would your internet connection have any reason to block it?

Whether it should is not the same as whether it does
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