Jason Scott's Weblog
This little purple piece of crap is the screenshot heard around the world. You know, doing work with Archive Team, you can sometimes (well, often) feel you’re doing amazing work. We got a nice run against Geocities, got a lot of attention with things, spread the word a bit… you know, heroes and all that. […]
Let me explain what this is: What you’re looking at is what happens when things get a little out of control with all the computer history, with a dash of major miscommunication. Let’s take a better look: What you’re looking at is a collection of 79 cardboard boxes, extra-strength, that contain every legal document held […]
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Getting up on a decade of reading what is probably hundreds of thousands of weblog posts, I am least interested in “I am sick” posts. They tend, in the aggregate, to be yelly, teary-eyed rants punctuated by what one imagines to be coughing, all towards the goal of “I am sick”. As a bonus, they […]
After a week or so of duping ISOs on the side, here is the collection as it currently stands. These will be eventually uploaded to cd.textfiles.com and its mirrors. I’m happy to say two people have stepped forward and CD.TEXTFILES.COM will have two mirrors, CDMIRROR.TEXTFILES.COM and CDMIRROR2.TEXTFILES.COM. This makes me feel a ton better about […]
I am going through a massive pile of CD-ROMs I bought on auction. For $40, including shipping, I got something like 200-300 CD-ROMs of shareware, trials, cover disks and random what-have-you. I had another package from a contributor who sent in his collection, so the number’s probably closer to 300. That’s a lot of historical […]
In 2005, when it was time to do all the DVD duplication for my new movie “BBS: The Documentary”, I had to choose how many copies were going to be in the initial run. Since I figured this was the greatest movie ever, and would sell like hotcakes, I chose a run of 4,500. 1,200 […]
Subject: I Sure Wish You Got It In answer to your webpage: https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/781 Dear Jason, This is in regards to the lawsuit against you from Mr. Mitchell. I do not know him personally but I know the issue he is making his best attempt to correct and from reading your page I will assume that you […]
I got this back in February from a guy named David, and David was entirely right. I was just discussing with my co-worker that most of the good old mom and pop computer stores are now gone (having presumably been killed off by the Internet and online shopping). Granted I’m in Albuquerque, NM and we […]
In October, Facebook made the announcement that you could finally export your information. Woo hoo! What’s interests me is less how Facebook implemented the exporting (spoiler alert: so-so) than the fact that they felt they need to do this. Why did they spontaneously decide to add exporting of any fashion? (If you want the clunky […]