Comments on: YIPL and TAP http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1185 Jason Scott's Weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:59:02 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jonno Downes http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1185/comment-page-1#comment-4507 Jonno Downes Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:31:26 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1185#comment-4507 I was inspired by your complaints about reading scans online, and also by the fact there were online indexes of Computist but no way to jump directly to a single page (so you couldn't look up a single softkey or article without downloading a 20MB PDF) so I have been working on a site for archiving scans that allows page by page navigation and also allows for people to add any number of 'topics' to a scan, so the pages can get searched and indexed. Still a work in progress but would appreciate any feedback on what I've got working so far. Currently the site is hosted at <a href="http://victa.jamtronix.com/" rel="nofollow">http://victa.jamtronix.com/</a> I was inspired by your complaints about reading scans online, and also by the fact there were online indexes of Computist but no way to jump directly to a single page (so you couldn’t look up a single softkey or article without downloading a 20MB PDF) so I have been working on a site for archiving scans that allows page by page navigation and also allows for people to add any number of ‘topics’ to a scan, so the pages can get searched and indexed.

Still a work in progress but would appreciate any feedback on what I’ve got working so far. Currently the site is hosted at http://victa.jamtronix.com/

]]> By: Rob "Flack" O'Hara http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1185/comment-page-1#comment-4506 Rob "Flack" O'Hara Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:05:18 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1185#comment-4506 Although I've never seen the YIPL and TAP issues until just now, it is interesting to me how familiar they seem. Some of the articles I remember reading verbatim on BBSes -- obviously typed in by hand and spread, uncredited, electronically. And the ones I haven't read, I've read text files similar in spirit. It is obvious that YIPL and TAP obviously inspired a generation of like-minded textfile writers -- some of them, like me, unknowingly. My favorite article so far (issue 9, maybe?) is the one that talks about the death of hacking -- the gist being that while hacking is dying/dead, phreaking will live on forever (while basically the exact opposite happened). I'll bet that if you looked hard enough you could find an article claiming the death of hacking or the hacking scene every year for the past 25 years. Although I’ve never seen the YIPL and TAP issues until just now, it is interesting to me how familiar they seem. Some of the articles I remember reading verbatim on BBSes — obviously typed in by hand and spread, uncredited, electronically. And the ones I haven’t read, I’ve read text files similar in spirit. It is obvious that YIPL and TAP obviously inspired a generation of like-minded textfile writers — some of them, like me, unknowingly.

My favorite article so far (issue 9, maybe?) is the one that talks about the death of hacking — the gist being that while hacking is dying/dead, phreaking will live on forever (while basically the exact opposite happened). I’ll bet that if you looked hard enough you could find an article claiming the death of hacking or the hacking scene every year for the past 25 years.

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