Difference between revisions of "TEXTFILES.COM"
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== Backup tools and progress == | == Backup tools and progress == | ||
Since the early 2000s, the webmaster of textfiles, Jason Scott, has been making the TEXTFILES.COM site available for mirroring from a variety of sources - these mirrors are shown at the top of the opening screen of the site. Ultimately, the sites known as TEXTFILES.COM and WEB.TEXTFILES.COM were uploaded to the Internet Archive as a series of .7z files in early 2001. [http://www.archive.org/details/textfiles-dot-com-2011] | |||
As part of his 2009 Sabbatical, Jason added rsync mirrors to every TEXTFILES.COM subsite, including PDF, ARTSCENE, and AUDIO. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
Revision as of 18:54, 2 June 2011
| TEXTFILES | |
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| URL | TEXTFILES[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
| Status | Online! |
| Archiving status | Not saved yet |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
TEXTFILES is a archiving site focused mainly on text files.
Main Page cite
On the face of things, we seem to be merely talking about text-based files, containing only the letters of the English Alphabet (and the occasional punctuation mark).
On deeper inspection, of course, this isn't quite the case. What this site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980's textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day.
Backup tools and progress
Since the early 2000s, the webmaster of textfiles, Jason Scott, has been making the TEXTFILES.COM site available for mirroring from a variety of sources - these mirrors are shown at the top of the opening screen of the site. Ultimately, the sites known as TEXTFILES.COM and WEB.TEXTFILES.COM were uploaded to the Internet Archive as a series of .7z files in early 2001. [1]
As part of his 2009 Sabbatical, Jason added rsync mirrors to every TEXTFILES.COM subsite, including PDF, ARTSCENE, and AUDIO.
External links