ASCII by Jason Scott
Jason Scott's Semi-Updated Journal of Computer History Musings.
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The Fun Drive? Oh, Wait
Blockparty: The Competitions and Awards
The Mask of the Night
The Wikipedia Database Secret
A Payphone Map, 25 years on
That Endless Knocking
Huzzah and Thanks
Before the LOL: Rocketboom Mix
Flickr-y Flood
ROFLcon (After)
Poptastic Quiz
Hacker Photos: The Unexpected Return
Your Tour Guide Future
The Secret Cost of the Database
99%
Silly Jim Leonard
Adventurespiele
The Quirks of Penguicon
Digger
Quick Interview: Drive and Despair
Goatse Metrics
Uther - Net
More-iarty
Memories of a Scoundrel
The Decade Cometh
Napster: Did You Forget?
CPU Not Required: Making Demos with FPGAs
Sorry, Fired.
Blockparty: 4k Music
Suicidal
A Demo Event of Serious Consequence
Twilight of the Area Code Master
FORUM REFEREE!
Not Free Enough
A Quick Recommendation: Dad Hacker
April Tool's Day
April Fool
Blockparty Preparations
Luna City
Scanning Infocom
DVDs for the Blind
Help Me Find Invisiclues 2000
Ding Dong, ANSI Calling
Trixter's Monotonous Triumph
The Three Levels
The Tyranny of the Ratio
Awesome Trailer Review!!
GET LAMP Trailer Out
Confessions of a Staff Captain
Blockparty: Your Source for Cocaine
Happy 18th, TinyTIM
Why Hello There
My New Little Youtube Buddy, Format 18
Bow Down Before the Files You Serve
Don't Interrupt, Jerk
Penguincon
The Name of The Game
Possessed
Uninterrupted Power Play
1000 Little Buddies
Stories
Webtrap
What Are These Feelings?
Sleep Lab 2020
Hard-Won Information on Editing with USB
The Character Assassination of Jason Scott by the Coward Ed Cunningham
Truth in Numbers
I Love You, Cinematic Snow
The Speech of Forever: Talk Notes
Jumper and Childhood
Subtitle Your Fucking Movie
My Five Movies
On the Occasion of 100 Simultaneous Connections
The Unfeelies
Unnecessary
The Feelies
ROFLcon
The Modem Man Rap
Health and Exercise Update
Shmoocon Success
Face to Face with Luna City
A Carrier Detected for Three Decades
Danger Safely Outside the Danger Zone
The Power of Reddit
Caretaking Fun
Nice Try, Archiver-Hater
The King of Wrong: Final Words (Many of Them)
Called on Account of Pain
The King of Wrong: Short Version
Linkages
The Sad Compulsion of the Right Thing
The Adventure Library
The King of Wrong Runs Long
The King of Wrong
GET GIRL
Maximalized Pandas
The Syslink Manual
Conspiracy's a Special Word
The Strip-Miners
Shmoocon
Geek Entertainment
Zero Stars
Blockparty Speakers List Finalized
The Most Popular Thing Ever
On the Outset of Editing
My Best Bosses: Pat
My Best Bosses: Brian
Post-California
My Delicious Slaves
ANSI, ASCII, Text
The Long Hosting Goodbye
Invitation to Blockparty 2008
Review: Wizzywig
Personals: Wikipedia Critic Seeks Like-Minded Author for Laughs, Adventure
ASCII Weblog 2008
....and we're done.
5000 BBS Changes
Bizzaro Genius Baby
My Delicious Grape Juice
Used Clothes are Used
When Being Online Was New
Overextended
The Tool
The ANSI Gallery
Chinese is the New Computer
Peter Hirschberg's Triumphant Dream
Why the BBS Documentary Footage is Taking So Long
That Old Frog
Sketch the Cow
The Melee
The Cave of Dreams
Greetings From Time Warp
The Shadow Narrative
The Magic of Recommendation
Zero Punctuation
That time in the Haystack
The RV
The Goog
On Objects and People
Software's Marked Failure
Software's Quiet Success
Lying McLierson and the Lying Liefaces
A Substantial Volume of Man Meat
Vintage Computer Festival X
420
Slow Time
The Guitar on a Stand
Non-Alcoholic
Giving you the finger, Healed
Grr Guy
The Last Mile (Twice Over)
Movieland and Machine475
Flash
Some Random, Unsorted Thoughts on Sorting
Gout
Fred Fish's Quiet Goodbye
The Render Junkie
Not a Frame
To PhreakNIC
Love in the Time of Two Terabytes
Thank you so much, Jimmy
Aperture
A Plea for Compuserve Forums
The Eventual Big Day
Last Century
Catch-Up
Superchickens
The Bridge
On the Other Side
HV20 Test Footage
Argh
Crossing Lines
IFcomp
Andgor
On the Occasion of Using the Xbox 360
Why Tech Documentaries are Impossible
Instant
Going Going Gone
A Great Gift
Frontaclues(tm)
Mail Call
Frontalot Video Released (Completely)
WEBLOG CALLED ON ACCOUNT OF BIRTHDAY
GET LAME
My Approaching Delightful CD Crisis
Meretzky 1994
Toy
Health Update
The Last Starfighter Musical Returns!
You are Likely to be Bootlegged
The Edge of Forever
Greetings Internet Warrior: To Mirror the Past
Greetings Internet Warrior: Blur in Clear Sight
Greetings, Internet Warrior: The Tangential Sweep
Greetings, Internet Warrior: The One-Word Strike
Greetings, Internet Warrior: Infantalize your Quarry
The Sad Tale of the 5.25" Disk Drive
Thanks, Web 2.0
Chicks
Presentation: Shmoocon, One Laptop Per Child
The Delightful Overload
GET LAMP Teaser Trailer - And YouTube
Timing
A Future Possible Project: How to Present
STOP YOU'RE WRECKING IT
Joybubbles
Caught Up
Undeveloped
Standage
TEL
DEFCON 15
YIPL and TAP
Arcade Manuals
You Are Not Your Thing
Frontalot Video Released (Sort of)
Koalas Are Little Bitches
Major BBS: The Warezing and the Winning
The Undone CONPHOTOS
Goodbye, Rat
The Delight of Decades
"We Can't Have Nice Things."
Kaminsky: The Rematch!
Fails Under Load
Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 3.0
Good PDF, Bad PDF
Outdated
Blockparty Dates!
120,000 MODs
Nailing It
HVX-200, A Year and a Half In
Referrers, or, The Ever-Present Jason
Hirschberg, Again
Kaminsky!!!
When They Started Hating You
Not Interested
Slow Down
3279 Memories
Informed
Three Speaking Engagements
Ring Detect
Hacking Cracking
Online Cancer
Your Home Computer Alarm Clock
Productive
Flickr
Good Copy Bad Copy
Halfway
That Really Cool Phone
Detox
Where Did You Get These?
Vintage Festival East 4.0
Mark Weiser and Calm Technology
Cast and Photos
Found
Chowderbox
Cleverness Cash
The Big Push: Six Months In
need your guidence sir
The Wiz
Get Out Of My House
Pinball Perfection
Goodbye, Stuff
Electric Slide Lawsuit: Jason Schultz Responds
How the EFF Dropped the Ball on the Electric Slide Lawsuit
Stop Me Before I Do The Electric Slide
Podwaste
Zoo
Brickapedia
And Then It All Goes Crazy
Goatse II: The Widening
Microthingies
Catching Flack for the Philez
Wikipedia Templates
Leet
Locks
Seedy Textfiles
Where Have All the Philes Gone?
Five Days a Week
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
A Little More Front, for Context
Pitch Dark Post Mortem
Happy Drive
Blockparty
Bittorrent: Solitary. Fashionable. Ethereal.
NAC1M1
Alex
Outage
L0pht, Cracked
Diskmags
New and Old
Super Paper Mario
The Big Push Continues
Cold Turkey
The Scent of a Ware
First!
Demoscene Week: Link Buffet (Conclusion)
Demoscene Week: Blockparty
Demoscene Week: The Countries
Demoscene Week: The Drama
Demoscene Week: Going in Style
Demoscene Week: Changing Everything
Hark! Kibble!
Amateur Decade
Warning! Amateur Night!
Notacon and Blockparty: Deadlines Approach
Fruit Flavored Power
The Little Trojan Horse
INCREDIBLE NEW FEATURE
Snake Oil
That Time that I Cared
Landscapes by the Country Gardener
It Is Pitch Dark
Homecoming
A Touch of the Shmoo
Shmoocon: Hackers on a Plane
Headrush: My First Film
Shmoocon
Music Video
Creative Common Sense
The Mess Phase
Mindcandy 2: Buy the Goddamned Thing
40
Tracing DNA
The Tadros Collection
Blockparty UPDATE: Blockparty Invitation!
Goodbye Dutchess
Bad Ingredients
The Big Theater
Thinking Out of the Box
TEXTFILES.COM 2.0
Life in the Time of No Box
The Terrible Secret of Spam
Another Essjay Essay
Julien Pirates His Own Documentary
Wikipedia: J.S. on Essjay
One-Two Quote Punch
World Expert
Casting the Woz
Timeout
You Are Fuel
Smarties and Dumbells
The Beautiful Boot
BLOCKPARTY UPDATE: Speakers List is Finalized
The February Goat Update
Generation TEXT
Getting Jason to Endorse You: An Example
Peter Hirschberg
A Breath of Air (Housecleaning)
Computer Camp
You've Ruined Everything
Sorry about Boston
Small World
Arcade Documentaries
Zelchenko for Alderman
From the Mailbag: Archiving Yourself
Not Finishing your Film in 5 Easy Steps
Conceptporn
Wozipedia II+
Wozipedia
The Calibration
The Wikireporter
Lyons Pinball
The Very, Very, Very Long Tail
Fear
Rock on Out to the Blockparty
Quag7's State of the BBS, 2006/2007
A Sysop, Forever
Six Days a Week
169
TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball
Free for the Taking
That Guy
Five Better Heroes
Fillet
The Big Push
Hacker
Off the Chart
Note to 247 Realmedia
Frontalot
Driving Yourself Crazy the Visual Way
Getting Lamp
iMaid
The Ass-termath
Freedom, Justice and a Disturbingly Gaping Ass
Announcing: Blockparty!
Five Wikipedia Predictions: A New Year
Housecleaning
Printout
Todd "Ship" Shapiro
The Guide
The Phone Stories: THE OFFICE
Mythapedia
The Phone Stories: VOICEMAIL
The Big Picture
The Phone Stories: SECURITY
Return to History, A Little of Now
Flowing Amber
Little Plastic Dreams
Chip or London
Artscene!
Leave a Message
Review: Commodork
The Little Theatre
Artifacts
"Digital Influence Strategist"
And the Winner Is.... Death!
Cry
A Very Old Battle
Primary Sources
Keep on Keeping On
Looking Ahead: DVD Formats
Another Satisfied Customer
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wikipedia Criticism for Dummies in a Nutshell in 24 Hours or 21 Days Unleashed
The Pinball Hall of Fame Needs You
Julien! Julien! Julien!
See You in Portland
The Time Crunch
Contempt
Awesome
My Motivation Returns
Hey, Thanks
Interview by Leahpeah
Limits
Pundit and Production
Seriously, Fuck Katie Hafner
Goodbye, Dan
Around the Trashcan Fire
Coin, Operated Book, Sitting on the Shelf
Spinning Plates
The Best and the Interesting
Arcade: The Documentary
Selling the Scene, Selling the Box
So Long, Spaz
Another One Missed
A Quick Endorsement
Ant Farm
Bucks
Podcasting
The Stacks
The Great Success of the Great Failure
Bummer!
Motivation
Interview on Whitedust
The Scanination and the Burnination
The Passion of the Scanner
A Few Handfuls of Flung Mud
A History of Hacker Conferences
First Weekend
Gorp: A Little More
Gorp
Paperperson
Five Wikipedia Predictions (A Valentine)
Lifecycles and Audiences
A Little Bit of Nostalgia
ONE. MILLION. DOLLARS!
Speaking in Princeton
Adventurers' Club (Last Followup)
"I can't imagine they would enjoy such a conversation."
Dit dit dit hey wait
Hardcoded
Loose Film Ends
Pud
The Best BBS Movie Ever Made
Hacking the Scantron
Whoop de Shmoo
The Adventurers' Club (A Followup)
Public Speaking
Midphase Blows Goats
Exhibits and Phantom Access
"If the guy who put out the Saw DVD, for instance, ever even so much as just looked at the packaging to this thing his eyes would catch fire and burst into lacrymotic slag."
Mentors
The Owl Ball
Seven Bits No Waiting
Sudden View
Notapedia
One. Million. Files.
The Adventurers' Club
The Founder of the BBS
The Scratched Lens and Broken Fingers Layer
A Little More Footage
Short, Sweet, and Clear
The Last Starfighter: The Musical: The Sountrack
Blessed Is the Followthrough
Vintage Computers, Vintage Film
One From the Mailbag
Creative Commons and The Money
Vintage Computer Festival
There is a Shiny Brass Lamp nearby
Hungry
Lord British in Space: A pledge
The Future of Pinball
Redlighted
We're Not Selling Out! We're Buying In!
Wake Me Up
Fan Mail of the Month
DRUGWARS
A Fall in Price
A Story in Images
Rumspringa!
And Now a Word From a Marketer
Giving Back
A Thousand Seven Hundred RTTY Memories
Echoes of Life
Goodbye, Milky
Kick My Ass
The Documentary was SO worth making.
Rumspringa
The BBS Documentary Interview Collection
Statement of Work
I, For One, Welcome Our New Pictograph Subtitles
Time Served
Bovine Ignition Systems
The Right Audience (and the Sequel)
A Bittersweet but Happy Ending
IMDB Assault Begins
A Silent Key
Buy Buy Buy
Script: A Lot of Little Things
TeeVee
All The Podcasts: It Continues
The Dedications
Getting a Hold of Reviews
Why Is Today Not Like What It Was Like?
So You Warezed The Documentary
I'm Shocked! Truly SHOCKED!
What a Week
Dream Becomes Reality: A Mail Call
Letter, Response
Egad
Why the BBS Documentary is Creative Commons
The Machine is Humming
Now That's My Idea of a Party
Other Lands
Out There
I'm in the IMDB
Another Pile Leaves
BBS Documentary Ships
It begins
Housecleanings
One-Day Delay! Of Course!
Discs 2 and 3 now in their cases
Stacking the Odds
Packages and Slipcovers Arrive, DVDs Soon
The Big Time
Text goes In, Text goes out
Days of Delay
Packing Boxes Arrive, DVDs in about a Week
Swastikipedia
A Quiet Transaction
Last Check Disc Approved
Podcast Work
Delays and Ankles
Quite the Offer
All The Podcasts: An Update
Documentary: Disc Art
Documentary: Disc #3 is working, Disc #1 Resubmitted
My Most Precious Collection
Disc #1 Re-Done, going to Printer
Documentary: Disc #1 fails, Must be Resubmitted
A Bright Day of Shovelware
I Paid, You Get It for Free
Some Other Documentary Meta-Things
Documentary Update: #2 Done
Selling History
Glass Masters
The Bat of Good Tidings
An Interview with Krakowicz
An Unusual Feature
The Wrapups
Home Stretch
All of the Podcasts
BBS Documentary Update: The Dog That Roared
Fahrenheit 300/1200/2400
BBS Documentary Update
BBS Documentary Update
Help Me Bring Back TORRENTS.TEXTFILES.COM
Three More BBS Documentary Updates
The Eye of Doom: Documentary News
BBS Documentary Update
A Criticism of Wikipedia Now Exceeding a Scream
So, where is this Documentary?
Merry Christmas - The Last Starfighter
BBS Documentary News (December 12, 2004)
The Ugly: Bandwidth and Politics
Everything Old is Scanned Again
The Great Failure of Wikipedia
"Use of our client's trademark to identify enema equipment in erotic fiction is likely to cause confusion"
Review of "The Last Starfighter: The Musical"
BBS Documentary Now In Pre-Sale
The World's Most Incredible Machine
A Minor but Important Thing
The BBS Documentary DVD and Premiere
AN APPRECIATION OF COUNT LAZLO HOLLIFELD NIBBLE /\/oo\/\
Documentary Triptychs
How It's Done: Digitizing and Culling
The Disks of Mister Keegan
BBS Documentary Update
Unusual Documentary Wrap-Up
HOPE Conference Speech: "Preserving Digital History"
I'm Not Moving Fast Enough
An Awful Lot to Talk About
BBS Documentary: June 17, 2004
A Call for some Hard Core Mirrors
Five Documentary Manias
BBS Documentary Optimizes, Gets Reviews Already
Buy Textfiles.com For A Few Bucks
Goodbye, John Aleshe
No Matter the Intention
Good of History? Stupid and BORING.
The Haters, The Haters
BBS Documentary Update
A Prayer for the Part-Time BBS
All Rights Reserved without Prejudice
A Place Within The Company
A Spate of Crowd Surfing
An Endless Conversation
The 21st Century Sysop
Archiving Into the Infinite
North, North, Get Lamp, West, Jump
Candy Colored Promises
No Calls, Please
Room With an Interview
Why Is There No Advertising on Textfiles.com?
An Increasingly Misnamed But Still Interesting Site
README.TXT
Hey, I Was Here First
The Parties I Missed and the Parties I Didn't
All Hail Gunderloy
The Place Has Really Gone Downhill
Five Things Worth Looking Into
Have you met Curt Vendel today?
The Art of the Crack
Bloggers, Meet the Baggies
Ever Heard of Henk Nieborg?
Save Everything
A Prayer for Psygnosis
Tom Jennings, Renaissance Man
The History is Everywhere and Nowhere
Documentary of an Addiction
Every BBS Textfile Ever
Does the BBS Guy Run a BBS?
The Race To Digitize Everything Ever
Through a Carrier, Darkly
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