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Rumspringa! —
Well, after some planning, phone calls, meetings and other such work, I’m happy to announce that the Textfiles.com Rumspringa (user meeting and dinner) is a go. All the info is now updated on the page: http://rumspringa.textfiles.com/ Check it out, and if you live in the northeast, consider RSVPing and attending. I’d like to see you […]
And Now a Word From a Marketer —
Date: 12 Sep 2005 16:09:13 -0400 From: Stefanie Koperniak To: ascii@textfiles.com Subject: WGBH Presents “Thinking Big” Jason, I just wanted to give you a heads-up about a new one-week science/technology series on WGBH. The week of Oct. 3-7, WGBH presents “Thinking Big,” a one-week television series that features notable men and women from the fields […]
Giving Back —
I haven’t linked this from the main documentary site yet, because I still have a few more entries to shore up, but I’m fulfilling a promise to myself about having “how I did it” stuff show up on the site. So there’s now The BBS Documentary Production Information. I expect it’ll ultimately have a dozen […]
A Thousand Seven Hundred RTTY Memories —
I had written about the passing of John Sheetz some entries back. This story has a nice (if not, of course, happy) coda. First of all, his widow and children have now recieved copies of the documentary and the original full one-hour interview, which itself is on archive.org and which started off the massive BBS […]
Echoes of Life —
Dr. Hasegawa-San: This message is for your father, who I have not met but whose work and efforts have saved my life. In 1996, my friend sold me his 1988 Toyota Corolla for $200, essentially as a gift, to celebrate my finally becoming a driver. (I learned to drive at 25, having avoided it as […]
Goodbye, Milky —
Without a doubt, the absolute worst way to find out about someone’s death is through referrer logs. Among the people I interviewed for the documentary were a couple in Toronto, who for the purposes of identification were called “Milky and Liz”. We talked about diversi-dials (ddials), early BBS culture, BBS meets, and a whole other […]
Kick My Ass —
I am very sad today. I have two big piles in my life: unfinished projects to do, and unfinished media to absorb. The piles are huge, because I acquire a lot of stuff and I get a lot of ideas. One of the pieces in the unfinished project is a novel. I’ve had this novel […]
The Documentary was SO worth making. —
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:29:46 -0400 To: director@bbsdocumentary.com Subject: Okay, I admit it! Jason, I’d seen your BBS documentary mentioned on Slashdot in the past, and after a recent post about it, I decided to go to your site to see about purchasing it. After all, I spent about a decade of my life […]
Rumspringa —
I don’t know why it took me so long to finally announce this idea; I had it back in June but then life got a little busy. Textfiles.com gets a lot of visitors. A LOT. Hundreds of thousands. And I get a lot of nice mail from a lot of people. Also, I like to […]