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<B>More frequent updates occur at my weblog,
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<A HREF="http://ascii.textfiles.com">ASCII.TEXTFILES.COM</A>.
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<B>December 6, 2003</B><P>
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Let me revise the statement in the previous news entry. Instead of "every
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few months", it's rapidly become "every few years" that the news file is
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updated.
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<P>
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Most of the reason for this is very good. The website is stable, with
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files coming in regularly, fitting into the right slots and the best
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directories, with little need for new ones to be created. Additional
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files that aren't 1980's era textfiles are being given new sites to go
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to, and I've done my best to have a solid selection of mirrors out
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there that provide good connections to different parts of the world.
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<P>
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But the rest is mostly because of the <A HREF="http://www.bbsdocumentary.com">BBS
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Documentary</A> I've been working on for two years, interviewing hundreds of people
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about the experience of using the BBS. As you might expect, it's frigging huge,
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especially when you cast the net as wide as I have.
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<P>
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I'm updating news right now to let you know that the front of the
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textfiles.com, the title page, now is combined with the "mirror page"
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and the "other sites I run page" so that all the mirrors get a copy
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equally, instead of it all being dependent on one box. The thing doesn't
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have the exact slick look the original page did, but it's pretty good and
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does a lot more work in less space, so that's important.
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Also, the links are now more prominent to the dozen or so related textfiles.com
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sites, which include <A HREF="http://pdf.textfiles.com">pdf.textfiles.com</A> and
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<A HREF="http://audio.textfiles.com">audio.textfiles.com</A>, and the massively
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growing <A HREF="http://artscene.textfiles.com">artscene.textfiles.com</A>.
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<P>
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So, I'm healthy, happy, and working hard. Salut.
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<P>
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<B>January 15, 2001</B><P>
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It appears that it is my style to update the news only every few months.
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Well, technically, a historical archive isn't supposed to have earth
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shattering events every other day, so I guess that's just the way it is.
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On the other hand, I'm doing hours of work a day for a site, so it's not
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like you're not seeing the results of my efforts.
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<P>
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I never expected to still be in the "collecting" phase of this site for
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this long. Shows you how little I knew about just how many files were
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out there waiting for me to collect. I've written a number of additional
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utilities that will make tracking down doubles a much quicker and accurate
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task. Just this past weekend, for example, I found FIVE THOUSAND doubled
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files in the inbox that I won't have to compare to find elsewhere. That's
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some good timesaving going on.
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We're peeking a little above thirty thousand textfiles, but that's not
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as meaningful as it was for the first twenty thousand, because I'm now
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bringing in a ton of e-zines (mid 1990's-era textfile collections) and
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I've acquired large swaths like the entire run of Fidonet FIDONEWS from
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1984 to 2000. It's hardly fair to look at those hundreds of files and
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act like they were acquired with the same care and luck as some of the
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real buried classics in the hacking or bbs sections. However, they ARE
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vital history, showing a very clear progression of BBSes from the mid
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1980's heyday straight up to the present; only a few other online
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collections can demonstrate that far a reach.
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Added a new <A HREF="http://www.textfiles.com/thoughts/anarchy.html">essay
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on the concept of "Anarchy"</A> as it relates to BBSes and the political
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world. It was suggested to me by a user and I'm a better person for
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writing it.
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<P>
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By the way, for the small amount of people looking for T-shirts or CDs
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for sale, the fact is, I can NEVER offer them. The reasons are purely
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legal; I lose money on this site (hundreds of dollars a month) and if
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I start turning a PROFIT on them, then I'm in a much worse situation
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should someone sue me for copyright infringement or libel or something
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else. It's one thing to screw up; it's another thing to be raking in the
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cash over that "screw up".
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<P>
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Other than that, things are steady as she goes. There will be new companion
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sites added to this one, but they're just to handle natural offshoots of
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the pure text collection, such as photographs of the BBS era and textfiles
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for the year 2000 and beyond. You know, context.
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Thanks for reading.
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<B>October 1, 2000</B><P>
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I apologize for the lack of updates. I switched jobs and got wrapped
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up in a number of projects, so I didn't go bazoo on the site other than
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to make sure it was working properly at all times. <P>
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HOPE 2000 went really well and I met a number of my mirror administrators.
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All the finest of human beings, I assure you. At DEFCON, I got to give
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another great speech, and really enjoyed myself. I don't think I'll be
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speaking again (how many more years would I want to milk this into
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speeches?) But I'll very likely keep going, because it's fun. <P>
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I'll be moving back into updating the site for the next couple of
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months. Expect us to hit 30,000 files in that time. <P>
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<B>June 12, 2000</B><P>
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I have another speaking engagement at this year's
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<A HREF="http://www.defcon.com">DEFCON</A>; hopefully this one will go as
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well as last year's did. I think I'll get away from speaking after that;
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the whole environment is too rife for trouble. I do want to get the
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word out; maybe I'll speak at events other than hacker conventions. But
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regardless. I appreciate the forum that Dark Tangent and the DEFCON
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organizers provide for me. And I'll try to make this year's talk as
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entertaining. <P>
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We're now at about 23,000 textfiles. There's a new section called
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<A HREF="http://www.textfiles.com/games">Games</A> which arose because
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the "Arcade" section was just for arcade games without any mention
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of home video games/consoles. Now they're both mentioned. The section
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already has something like 400 files in it. <P>
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I'm still in the process of pumping through the thousands of files in my
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inbox. It used to be something like 80,000 and now it's about 30,000.
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In case you're wondering, there's a ton of doubles. It is not necessary
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to send me every issue of Phrack. I'm all set! <P>
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The <A HREF="http://www.textfiles.com/magazines">magazines</A> section
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is in bad shape and needs a real overhaul. When I went to 2.0, I simply
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couldn't go through all of it. This will change. Mogel is helping me,
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both with that, and with the
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<A HREF="http://scene.textfiles.com">scene.textfiles.com</A> site, which
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he runs and is very, very successful. <P>
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Oh, and I will be attending HOPE 2000, although I will not be speaking.
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See you there.<P>
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<B>February 2, 2000</B><P>
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Welcome to TEXTFILES.COM Version 2.0! It's taken me many more months
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than I would have expected to finish this revision, but there was a ton
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of stuff to put in, and I wanted to get it right. <P>
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First of all, version 2.0 is Lynx Compatible! That means that the world's
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most popular text-based web browser can now read the site as well as Netscape
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or other similar graphical browsers. It seemed personally offensive that
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I was harkening back to the days of text-only BBSes and you couldn't look
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at the files without wading through graphics and special tables. So feel
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free to browse this place in a text window, and really keep the faith. <P>
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TEXTFILES.COM now weighs in a hefty and considerable 20,000 textfiles of
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all subjects and sizes, ranging from a few key bytes to well over a couple
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megabytes. I still have over 80,000 (!!!) textfiles left to sort through
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but you should start to see a lot of completeness on some key subjects.
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It would be pleasure beyond imagining for me to know that people are
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using this site to learn about a time they didn't live through themselves,
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or to use as study materials in writing reports or stories of their own.
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Let me know if you are. If you lived through this time and you see what
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you consider to be very important files missing, please let me know
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about them, and I'll keep an eye out for them. <P>
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Anyway, some other new improvements to the site:
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Many, many doubled and broken files have been removed, a lot of spelling
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errors (though not all) have been removed from the descriptions and
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introductions, and you'll see that I've added some sections and removed
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a few others. The largest new section to join is the <A HREF="../piracy.html">
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Piracy</A> section, which has a very large amount of files related to
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the (mostly) PC Pirating subculture. Very informative, very helpful.
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There's also <A HREF="../conspiracy.html">conspiracy</A> and
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<A HREF="../survival.html">survivalist</A> sections, because lots of files came that
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way. Almost every main section has new subsections, as well. I tried to make it
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so that there were no more than a few hundred files in any given directory, so
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you aren't spending so much time wading through the table redrawing and
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getting right to the files. <P>
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A new disclaimer has been added, which clarifies the position of the site as
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relates to copyright law, and you can also buy T-shirts!<P>
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Oh, and another thing. There's a new <A HREF="../history.html">history</A> section
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which will have essays and writings by people who were a part of the BBS world
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of the 1980's, and who will give perspective on everything.
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Isn't life great?<P>
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<B>November 12, 1999</B><P>
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What's been up for the past two months? Quite a bit, actually. I'm
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now trying to take textfiles.com to version "2.0". Once it hits
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version 2.0, I'll re-publicize it, and we'll see a large amount of
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people using it (at least, I hope), and a whole new group of
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folks will like the place, and maybe send more great files and
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essays.
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The new sections include a rebuffed Piracy section (replacing
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the TAGS section), two more questions on the front page, and lots
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and lots and lots of new sub-directories. I've been going through
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all the current sections and cleaning out doubles, cleaning out
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files that were in the wrong place and doubled that way, and
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improving spelling, grammar, and all that sort of stuff.
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In other words, I've been busy. I really have.
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As of this writing, I'm in the HAMRADIO section, and going
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down alphabetically. I hope to have this soon; my mirrors are
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chomping at the bit to have the new version of the site. So am I.
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<P>
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<B>September 13, 1999</B><P>
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My birthday. I'm 29. Since I started using computers when I was 9 and
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started using BBSes when I was 11, that brings me to 20 years with
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computers and 18 with textfiles. It's amazing how the time gets behind
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you.
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<P>
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Once nice aspect to having been with textfiles so long is that
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you really get a nice perspective and distance on them. I'm still
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slogging through the inbox, currently consisting of two textfile
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CDs I got last year, which gave no mind to putting 1995 graphics
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programs next to <A HREF="http://www.textfiles.com/humor/REAL/squid.hum">Nearly
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inscrutable BBS Scene Guides</A>. This is a lot of tedious, boring
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work, as many of these files are either doubles, or worse, one
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or two character differences from files already online, screwing up
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my comparison routines. I used to tell people that I had 40,000
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textfiles in the hopper. In fact, the number could be somewhat less or
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somewhat GREATER than that; there's no way to tell, because a lot
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of those files are in .zip format and I haven't split them apart
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to see the candy-coated shell inside.
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<P>
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T-Shirts will become a reality in October. Additionally, I may be
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switching jobs and if so, things are going to get whacky for a
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while. Wish me luck.
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<P>
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Other odds and ends: Currently, the TAGS and MAGAZINES sections of
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the site are in bad disarray, as I've been trying to get files up there
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faster than making sure all the directories were pretty and sorted.
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I'll blow a day on those sections soon. Thanks for understanding.
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<P>
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<B>August 13, 1999</B><P>
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I hope that I've not given the impression of inaction by not
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updating the news for textfiles.com in the last couple of months.
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The fact is, the site has been undergoing major revision and
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has many new changes. A lot of these are added sections such
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as the <a href="../media.html">Media</A> and <A HREF="../conspiracy.html">conspiracy</A>
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directories, and the additional information home pages such
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as the <A HREF="http://www.textfiles.com/filestats.html">File Statistics</A>
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page, which is updated nightly. This last is interesting because
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it enables people to see the amount of files I'm pouring into the
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place. I wish it could be faster, but at the moment I've added a few
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thousand files since the news was last written. The amount of files
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in my "in-box" is still hovering around 40,000, though, so there's
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a lot of work to go.
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Besides the wholesale cataloging of files, which is a heck of a job
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in itself, I have other grand plans for the site, mostly in having
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tours that introduce you to some aspect of the sub-culture. I'll write
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an example one soon, I hope.
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<P>
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The other big hullaballo of the past few months was my speech at DEFCON
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in Las Vegas on July 9th-11th. To my surprised, over a thousand people
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heard me speak, and they even got some entertainment from it. I hope to
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speak more about textfiles in the future, and I made a lot of acquaintances
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at DEFCON who have been sending me more files and encouragement. And work
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continues.
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<B>June 5, 1999</B><P>
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The mirroring of textfiles.com has come along nicely; we now have
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4 sites. Synchronization will be a problem, but that's at least one
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of those problems that just means a slight difference between sites,
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as opposed to complete lack of access to the work, which would be
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really bad.
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<P>
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I also just adjusted/fixed up the 100 and apple sections, which are
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now really starting to become what I intended them to become. Nice.
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Speaking at Defcon just next month; got my tickets and everything.
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<B>April 24, 1999</B><P>
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Unexpectedly, textfiles.com was mentioned in a satire page about the
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massacre in Colorado, www.trenchcoat.org. Within a few hours, I was
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getting thousands of hits in the Anarchy section, with people being
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told this was where to get information on making explosives. This isn't
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the case; this is the place to get badly-written and researched plans
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for how people thought explosives should be created, often transcribed
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from some book like The Anarchists' Cookbook or a Kurt Saxon book.
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I see a difference there; maybe some don't, but I do.
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<P>
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Anyway, I got a very large amount of hate mail from people, including
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some interesting questions about if I was a member of the Trenchcoat
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Mafia or assuming I had created the parody page (which I did not).
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Fearing some sort of government repraisal that would mean the loss
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of my job, I put up a statement discussing what Anarchy Textfiles
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meant to me, and why I thought they were an important part of history
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in place of the index of files in the explosives directory, where
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we were linked from trenchcoat.org.
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<P>
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This all got me thinking about how textfiles.com is currently set up,
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off one of my machines running at my workplace. It's rather stupid
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that outside folks can make me worried about the longevity of the site
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simply by linking on it, so two important things are happening.
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<B>1. I am moving.</B> TEXTFILES.COM will be going to another site to
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live. There should be absolutely no downtime. The site is just as fast
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and the PC in question is even faster than my current one, so it's not
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like I'm going to be sacrificing speed or ease of use for my own peace
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of mind. This new site costs me money, however, which brings me to my
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second change:
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<B>2. I am going to Version 1.0.</B> The reason for wanting to do this
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is that I can then offer CDs to people at a price with the entire site
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on it, that they can then read from instead of being stuck online all
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the time. This will make life much easier for all of us. So, instead of
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trying to integrate as many new files as I can, I will spend the next
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week or so trying to clean up all the directories, move things into
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the right sub-directories, make the introduction paragraphs more
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descriptive of the directories they introduce, and generally tighten
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the whole place up.
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So although it's a bummer that it took such weird events for me to move
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textfiles.com to the next level, and it will be costing me a lot more to
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run, I think all around it was inevitable. The site will go on without
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me being worried about company policy or federal agents coming to kill
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me and whatnot.
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<P>
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If the idea of a textfiles.com T-shirt interests you, mail me.
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<B>April 10, 1999</B><P>
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One complaint/bother that a good amount of people mentioned to me was that
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in most modern browsers on the Windows platform, clicking on any file with
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a ".DOC" extension automatically makes that file open up in Microsoft Word.
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I agree that this is totally unwarranted, so I've written a script that goes
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through and renames every ".doc" file to ".txt". In the future, I will
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rewrite the program so that it will instead take every .txt file and rename
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it to the extension du jour of that particular directory, but for now,
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this makes life easier for a lot of people. Note that there are still some
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.doc files lurking around because filenames with the .txt extension already
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existed, but I have currently cut down the amount of files with .doc
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extensions from over 1,200 to about 20. So I think that's good enough for
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now.
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<P>
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<B>March 25, 1999</B><P>
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OK, things have calmed down to the point that I can think about raising
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my head again. After the twin hits of slashdot.org and wired.com doing
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articles, I was flooded with visitors. (You can read the Wired article
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<A HREF="http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/culture/story/18175.html?wnpg=all">
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here</A> and as a bonus, in
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<A HREF="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/2095.html">
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Japanese</A>.)
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<P>
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Along with the gigabytes of files transferred out of here, I started to get
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lots of donations of textfiles, and specifically archives of same. These have
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ranged from URLs pointing me to still-surviving textfile groups, to two cases
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of people uploading ENTIRE CDs of text to me! Now, those people who sent me
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mail attachments are probably wondering what the hell happened to me. Well,
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between the files I've already got waiting to sort through and the files that
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people have been kind enough to send me, I'm looking at going through over
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<B>FIFTY THOUSAND</B> of these things, sorting them, finding doubles, and all
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the rest of what people do. As I finish someone's archives, I send them a thank
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you and add a credit to the sources page. So I promise, everyone WILL be getting
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responses from me. It's just a matter of when...
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<P>
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I'm down to an average of 500 visitors a day and 300 megabytes of transfer.
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This is fine with me; the task of sorting files still lays ahead, and I'm going
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to be spending a lot of free time making that happen. I'll consider the next
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break point to be July, when I speak at DEFCON. Maybe by then I'll know what
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I'm going to say.
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<P>
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Also, as time goes on, the classifications are sorting themselves out, so that
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my goal of not having any one directory with more than five hundred files in
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it is coming to fruition.
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<P>
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Oh, one other unexpected side effect: Since at this point I'm taking pretty
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much <I>anything</I> coming down the pike (with the exception of Usenet
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postings) the archive now spans from the 60's to a week ago, and covers so
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many disparate subjects that the 80's BBS textfile experience is just a part
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of what's here. Guess I'm buying a bigger hard drive!
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<P>
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<B>February 23, 1999</B><P>
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At the suggestion of a lot of people, I tried some experiments with
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putting up a search engine on TEXTFILES.COM. The result is not all that
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great.
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<P>
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See, TEXTFILES.COM is running on a 486/33. This is fine for serving files,
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and in fact, it's more than fine, because I watched it serve files to
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14,000 users on Monday. But for the processor-intensive job of searching
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all the files I have, even with the cute indexing that the program
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<A HREF="http://www.htdig.org">(Htdig)</A> does, it slowed the machine
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down when I, a singular person, was looking at it. How would even a
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dozen users fare?
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<P>
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So as I see it, I can't currently add a search function for TEXTFILES.COM
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unless one of two things happen: Either someone donates a part of THEIR
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machine to become my search engine, or I go through with my original
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plan to force HotBot to track my site and use their interface/power to
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go through my site. But on the other hand, they don't always seem to
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track the whole site with their indexer, so we'll see.
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<P>
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Either way, I'm trying. I really am.
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<P>
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<B>February 22, 1999</B><P>
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Well, textfiles.com has finally hit the big time. We were mentioned
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on <A HREF="http://www.slashdot.org">Slashdot</A> and this caused
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my hits to go from about 40mb a day to over 4 gigabytes. The numbers
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were staggering.
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<P>
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The system was staggering too, but not because of the slashdotters,
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which in itself in amazing. No, it turns out the software I use
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to keep track of hits to the system was running once a MINUTE
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instead of once an HOUR, and it wasn't until the system slowed down
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that I noticed this problem. So once that was fixed, the system
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has held up VERY well! I've had over 15,000 people connect to the
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system today, I'm being interviewed by Wired and people are coming
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out of the woodwork to wax nostalgic and share their private
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textfile collections, which means I can look forward to being even
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larger in the weeks to come. Things are wonderful!
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<P>
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Also, I have signed on to be a speaker at
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<A HREF="http://www.defcon.org">DEFCON</A> on the nature of textfiles
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and the history that surrounds them. I hope my speech is entertaining
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and enjoyable to people. I hope to meet lots of people there.
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<P>
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We can only go up from here. Welcome!
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<B>January 29, 1999</B><P>
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I'm most definitely a Perl convert. I knew it was a good language,
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and I even took a class (on the company's tab) at Sun Microsystems
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to learn it, but I came away with nothing really gnawing at my gut
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to be PERLized.<P>
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Enter the Ferret. Ferret (after the old Mascot of my BBS) was originally
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a plain shell script, the purpose of which is to generate all these
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directories of textfiles you see on this site. (I do NOT generate them
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by hand; I would hope people know that.) It used to take, with my
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original scripts, upwards of 12 minutes to compile some of the
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larger directories, and I was going to optimize the shell scripts,
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when I realized this was JUST the application to try writing in
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Perl.
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<P>
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So I did, and after a night of careful hacking I've produced a
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4k script (with comments) that does the same work in about 7 seconds.
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I'll never go back. Maybe I'll do more of the site maintenance this
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way.
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<P>
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<B>January 20, 1999</B><P>
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Well, the last month has been spent describing all of the textfiles
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currently on this site. With a couple more stories added to the
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"textfiles I have known" section and a final do-over of a couple of
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the (now-filled) directory headers, we should be ready to go "public".
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I am most interested to see what effect, if any, this site has on
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the world. Either I was completely wrong about this site's importance
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or I'm going to be running from the press for the rest of my life.
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<P>
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Please note that this is NOT the entire collection of textfiles;
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actually, it's about 5,000 of 10,000 that I have. I just haven't
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sorted through the massive disks I've downloaded, yet. Also, there ARE a
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few doubles buried in there. The program that will help me detect
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doubles (because I'm not going to play a game of "concentration"
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with 5,000 items) is going to have to be run on its own machine and
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will probably be doing that across a week. That'll be a little later.
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<P>
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I invite comments, donations of textfiles, and helpful criticism.
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<P>
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<B>November 20, 1998</B><P>
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You're lucky to find the place. People are starting to point to the site, but
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it's by no means ready for prime time yet. I'm still integrating textfiles from
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various sources including my own collection and that of others. <P>
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As it currently stands, we're somewhere around 5,500 textfiles, of which
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20 percent are Ham Radio. I'm still sorting through everything that came in
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from the first run and then we'll see where we go from there. <P>
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If you have textfiles not included in here, please mail them to me at
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<A HREF="mailto:jason@textfiles.com">jason@textfiles.com</A> and I'll throw
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them into the batch.
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<P>Oh, and I contacted Net Nanny, Cyber Patrol and all the rest of those sites
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to let them know to keep people the hell away from here, because <I>these
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words is dangerous</I> and we wouldn't want kids READING, now would we?
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