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A Computer Lab, Browsers, Surfing, Electronic Zine, Endless Linking, What's New, Web MUD, Extensions and Add-Ons, CENTER Heresy, TEXTFILES.COM, Early Blog, Finger Servers, Growth and Complication, Lost Taste, Simplicity Underneath, Money Money, Walking Away, My Waiting Piano. A rumination of the echoes of revolution, told from one person's life. Part 3 of 4.
The Learning Process Episode: My Extreme Oscillation in Learning, Why I Learned The Way I Did, BBSes and Textfiles, Where This Worked, Fastest Temp, The Non-Threat of Failure, The Narrative, What Has Changed. A rumination on my personal learning process and where it has gotten better (or not) and why I think that it all worked out, ultimately.
The Time Bandits Episode: The Dutchess Mall, Movies 4, Suburbia Boring/Excellence, Chaotic Universe, Surpreme Being, Great Evil, Foundations, Portals of BBSes, Robbery of Textfiles, Before It's All Ruined. A short meditation on one of my favorite films, Time Bandits (1981) before a remake arrives. I have many movies that I enjoy, but this is a movie that formed a big part of my worldview when I saw it for the first time as an 11 year old.
The Data Dirigibles Episode: Prehistoric TEXTFILES.COM, The Cry of the Leech, TEXTFILES.COM Comes to Pass, Downloading Archives, Downloading More Archives, Kilo Mega Giga Tera, TEXTFILES TIME CAPSULE, What Persists, The Unpretty But Surviving Clump, Slash Internetarchive, Slash Internet, Software Capsules, Ace and I Ride High An episode about my idea that the future is just massive balls of data, floating airships of content that float slowly through our virtual sky. Let's see if I'm right. Meanwhile, come browse the capsules at: https://archive.org/details/softwarecapsules Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It is supported by Patreon subscribers. You can check out episodes before anyone else and help me with various bills and debts as they arise by joining up at https://patreon.com/textfiles.
The TEXTFILES.COM Machine Good Times Episode: A Moment of Reflection, A Previous Moment of Darkness, The Quarter Century of Hosting, A Shifting Window, The Role TEXTFILES.COM Has Played, ARCHIVE.ORG vs. TEXTFILES.COM, a Heartfelt Thank You. Recognition of how the TEXTFILES.COM replacement machine is working so well, and an additional recognition of the context of a hosted machine existing so many years across time in one of the most shaky mediums imaginable.
The Return of TEXTFILES.COM Episode: A Problem Worse Than Thought, Remote Work, Saint Spencer, I Was Once Spencer, Replacing The Machine, The Overkill Beast, The Specs, Fixes and Improvements, SCENE.ORG, Bitsavers, Stone Oakvalley, A New Day for TEXTFILES.COM, Forgotten Love, A Bright Future. It turned out the problem with the TEXTFILES.COM was a bit more than I expected, but luckily, it all got fixed in the end. Here's the process and the progress, and what got better. TEXTFILES.COM is at http://www.textfiles.com.
The TEXTFILES.COM Downtime Episode: A Strange Voicemail, E-mails, Downtime!, Considering Loss, Host Loyalty, A Simple Job, Bringing it Back, a Momentary Skip, The Meaning of It All. Plus: Ignore the Letters An article on the occasion of the unexpected downtime of TEXTFILES.COM. Here is an interesting situation for the Patreon backers of the podcast - the machine is actually still down. After editing the episode, I discovered catastrophic disk errors and while the machine can come "back", the disk issues cause it all to come down a few hours later, so a replacement has been ordered and the sites are all down. They'll be back, but I guess enjoy the fact you heard this episode in the twilight zone before I set up the new server. Thanks again for everything.
The Ultimate BBS List Episode: 20 Years of The BBS List, What Got Me Started, The Story Everyone Knows, The Story Less People Know, The Contraption Inside, 1982 not 1983, Philosophy of Complication, Where to Go From Here, The BBS List Forever. An episode about the BBS List collection at BBSLIST.TEXTFILES.COM and what got me going on it. I mentioned a couple other nice information sites. GOT PAPERS? Is the demoscene letter collection. It's at: https://gotpapers.scene.org/ The Sixteen Colors collection of ANSI art is here: https://16colo.rs/
Muss man als Frontend-Entwickler jeden Trend kennen und jede Browser-API/alle Frameworks beherrschen? Neben einer Vorstellung der heißesten WebGL und WebAssembly Demos gehen wir der Frage nach, ob man schon mal einen Shader programmiert haben muss und ob wir statt Textfiles in Zukunft nur noch Bytecode durchs Netz ballern. Dazu zeigen wir, wie man mit CSS Text nach einer bestimmten Anzahl Zeilen abschneiden kann und empfehlen das Tool der Tools. Achja und Jingles, wir haben Jingles!
The RTTY Art Episode: A Word About Loss. Meeting John Sheetz. RTTYs. RTTY Artwork. The Magic of RTTY Art. Sunday Nights. Interviewing John Sheetz. Gone Before the End. Typewriter Art. A Living Room of Artwork. Overstrike and Multi-Column. Epson MX-80. A Fading Work. After John is Gone. Timeless RTTY. A Printer As Easel. I may have mentioned John Sheetz in an episode before, but I certainly didn't go into all the elements of the RTTY artwork and world he was a part of. It was nice to finally get all of that out in one place. Photos from my interview with John Sheetz. The Full Video Interview with John Sheetz. RTTY Art Made Easy by Don Royer, WA6PIR The Story of the Typewriter, 1873-1923. Marcin Winchary's incredible collection of typewriter artwork books (as well as many other type and typewriting works). The RTTY.COM collections of RTTY Art and Related History. (The Gold Standard) The TEXTFILES.COM collection of RTTY Art
Senator Michael Bennet is officially running, Kamala Harris wins the media cycle questioning Bill Barr, a look into Beto O’Rourke’s teenage hacker past, and candidates sign a “No Fossil Fuel Money” pledge.Links:Sen. Michael Bennet announces he's running for president in 2020 (CBS News)"7,591 words" (YouTube/Michael Bennet)“Bennet for America” YouTube ChannelBennet’s Senate YouTube ChannelRising to the Challenge (Medium)Bennet’s “Ted Cruz Speech” (MSNBC)James Bennet recuses himself (Twitter/NYT)Democratic presidential candidates slam Attorney General William Barr amid calls for his resignation (ABC News)Watch Cory Booker Try Not to Laugh as Kamala Harris Questions William Barr (NY Mag)Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group (Reuters)My Day With The Dentist, by Psychedelic Warlord (TextFiles.org)A Feature on MONEY - Today's Monster, by Psychedelic Warlord (TextFiles.org)More CDC writings (TextFiles.org)No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge (Candidate List)O'Rourke signs 'No Fossil Fuel Money' pledge, returns donations (Politico)
In this episode of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Computer Podcast: What we’ve been up to in the past month PLUS all the Atari 8-bit news we could find... READY! Recurring Links Floppy Days Podcast AtariArchives.org AtariMagazines.com Kevin’s Book “Terrible Nerd” New Atari books scans at archive.org ANTIC feedback at AtariAge Atari interview discussion thread on AtariAge ANTIC Facebook Page AHCS Eaten By a Grue Donate to Ted Nelson project at: https://paypal.me/Savetz TEH: Tech Enthusiast Hour - https://tehpodcast.com ANTIC Interview Index - here What We’ve Been Up To SDrive Max: Atariwiki - https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SDrive-MAX Step-by-Step (German) - http://www.abbuc.de/~atarixle/readthread.php?f=15&t=9451&start=0 1 half SIO cable - https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=128 case - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2718842 Tandy Assembly - http://www.tandyassembly.com Living Computer Museum - https://livingcomputers.org Portland Retro Gaming Expo - http://www.retrogamingexpo.com http://www.Textfiles.com Recent Interviews http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-367-george-morrison-alpha-systems-atari-software-protection-techniques-books Atari News FastBASIC - https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic/ Rare Amdek Amdisk III 3" Disk Drive for Atari Computers on eBay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Amdek-Amdisk-III-3-Disk-Drive-for-Atari-Computers-working-/292781901516 and https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-AMDEK-AMDISK-III-3-INCH-DISK-DRIVE-/323275722802 Michael Sternberg created an amazing Atari disk data visualizer: An example disk: https://twitter.com/KevinSavetz/status/1054045176165855234 Visualizer code on github: https://github.com/michaelsternberg/atrviz Michael Sternberg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/16kRAM Discussion on AtariAge - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/284718-atari-disk-data-visualizer/ PLATOTerm Release page - https://github.com/tschak909/platoterm64/releases/tag/PLATOTerm-1.0 Irata.online Community For Retro-Computing Enthusiasts - https://www.irata.online Sails of Doom, new multijoy game - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/283993-sails-of-doom-new-multijoy-game/?fbclid=IwAR3cq09TVQro6cgXbLR7aDDhz6GIBy5eFDMKfo3U9HGmhpRA6BC7E0e2KAY , Game available at http://a8.fandal.cz Space Harrier - https://atariteca.blogspot.com/2018/10/actualizacion-de-space-harrier-para.html#more Total Eclipse 3d Adventure - https://atariteca.blogspot.com/2018/11/total-eclipse-juego-de-aventuras-3d.html FLOP 62 - New Issue of the Floppy Disk Magazine - http://atariage.com/forums/topic/283991-flop-62-new-issue-of-the-floppy-disk-magazine ABBUC Software Contest winners announced - http://www.abbuc.de/atari/software-ressort/81-software/softwarewettbewerbe/1836-software-wettbewerb-2018 There is also a Millionaire Custom Game Builder available ABBUC games available at http://a8.fandal.cz The wait is over! XFORMER 10 is here! - http://www.emulators.com/?fbclid=IwAR1Xb2qnlijwYed0Z_gYIRM3NurayXPAYVP4vemL2qw10qd0Egmsu7A5_4g and http://www.emulators.com/xformer.htm Atari Projects web site: http://atariprojects.org by Jason Moore Upcoming Shows where you might see Atari computers (or Atari people): http://wp.freeplayflorida.com/ Nov 9-11 orlando http://www.tandyassembly.com November 10th & 11th 2018 Springfield, OH YouTube videos since last show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T4RB0-UNMc&fbclid=IwAR2QQRNk7LrekhnkcaQTRBgrro7KGaza2Pzm6_1UG-VJ3ym-rHFQBFgUGAM - Sio2sd for ATARI XE/XL/400/800 with 16 GB SD CARD with DEMOS/FREE SOFTWARE UNBOXING and Review - Robbie Strike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuwLbpr6yLo&fbclid=IwAR29Q1SO2xyHhY1EeZHtl2irMGjv1uoWkx9-hVUshFrpcMUdaKCucdHVlzM&app=desktop - Atari 1027 Printer. Printing Gettysburg Address - by clubvanderbilt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3jML6x8yKU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2GcHpYtT8BIx7VUWhhTzJnACBO2wIUIekQXE66xFCiJmQiOrlQJy7HXXw - IRATA.ONLINE: Getting Started with PLATOTerm for Atari 8-bit systems. - Thomas Cherryhomes (tschak909) Commercial Bits and Bytes Episode 2: Ready-Made Programs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3jbNCCjok Mini-interviews Example of CURSIVE output: https://archive.org/details/IO_Connector_1986-12 Syn software at: https://www.atariarchives.org/swlibrary/#syn New at Archive.org https://archive.org/details/AutomatedLibraryII Allan (and edufun manuals) - https://archive.org/details/EdufunCatalog Possible side effects of listening to the Antic podcast include stuffy nose, sneezing, sore throat; drowsiness, dizziness, feeling nervous; mild nausea, upset stomach, constipation; increased appetite, weight changes; insomnia, decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm; dry mouth, intense hate of Commodore, and Amiga lust. Certain conditions apply. Offer good for those with approved credit. Member FDIC. An equal housing lender.
The Amateur Episode: Question Not Question, Stumbling into Librarian, Emerson College, Zero Sum Games, The Early Web, TEXTFILES.COM as Library, Your Amateur Moment. I've tried to take a (minor) sour moment and turn it into something positive. I also got to give some thoughts on some generalized criticisms that are usually subtweeted in my direction, although how much this episode moves the needle, I'll likely never know. The presentation, by the way, was a lot of fun and I got to meet some really great folks who I'd never had the chance to meet. I found out about some long-memory examples held up in in the professional spheres, and I hope to research those to have what other lessons could have learned. Also, lunch was amazing and someone handed me a stack of hard drives. Also, now you know why "Rank Amateur" is in my twitter bio!
We meet Gordon Dymowski to learn more about net neutrality. He's a writer and consultant with a lot of internet experience. We learn that the issue of net neutrality affects all of us in multiple ways. Guest: Gordon Dymowski Host/Producer: Tariq I. El-Amin Executive Producer: Abdul Malik Mujahid Music: Lessazo - Moussa - bit.ly/2wHdV6z Image: Jason "Textfiles" Scott - https://flic.kr/p/dB1Psx
The Internet Archive Grab Bag: Another Week Online, The Archive Building, The Verifications, The Ups and Downs, The Narrative, Patreon Fail, PODCAST.TEXTFILES.COM, Building Pride and Love, Teeth, Thanks. Recorded on the office floor of the Internet Archive, I went for a grab bag of random thoughts, so this episode is very, very loose. I also didn't have my pop shield out here, so apologies to your speakers. I mention the Patreon stupid and also offer PODCAST.TEXTFILES.COM as the secure central information and donation vector for this podcast going forward. It has been quite the ride watching support drop and return for this Patreon, and I don't need more uncertainty in my life, thanks. Opinion seems to float that people would like an interview show or similar, but I'd probably make it a bonus, because it would be different than this format, and notably longer. We'll see when that happens, but it's on my mind. Next episodes will be much less miscellaneous, but it felt great to talk about it all. Thanks for riding along.
Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It: A weekly podcast series about stories, technology, nostalgia, wonder, and more stores. Hosted by Jason Scott of TEXTFILES.COM. The Dark Episode: Applejack, Rage, A Full Mailbox, Getting Better, The Best Life, Debt Unchained. Like, I bet, most everyone out there, not every part of my life has been 100% great. I decided to just pack all that negativity (especially teenage years) into one episode so we can move on to more fun stories. This was definitely a hard episode to record and a harder one to shape into a cohesive whole. I'm glad I did it, but I look forward to more about beeps, boops and laughter. This podcast is supported by a Patreon at http://patreon.com/textfiles. Jason can be followed at https://twitter.com/textfiles and you are perennially invited to visit his website, TEXTFILES.COM.
Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It: A weekly podcast series about stories, technology, nostalgia, wonder, and more stores. Hosted by Jason Scott of TEXTFILES.COM. What Do You See, Anarchy, Boom, The Wrong Hands, Two FBI Visits, Freedom, Textfile Groups. This podcast is supported by a Patreon at http://patreon.com/textfiles. Jason can be followed at https://twitter.com/textfiles and you are perennially invited to visit his website, TEXTFILES.COM.
Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It: A weekly podcast series about stories, technology, nostalgia, wonder, and more stores. Hosted by Jason Scott of TEXTFILES.COM. Emulation is Magic, Saving my Pennies, Control and Collection, The Javascript Mess, The Next Generation, Pimp My Spectrum. This podcast is supported by a Patreon at http://patreon.com/textfiles. Jason can be followed at https://twitter.com/textfiles and you are perennially invited to visit his website, TEXTFILES.COM.
Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It: A weekly podcast series about stories, technology, nostalgia, wonder, and more stores. Hosted by Jason Scott of TEXTFILES.COM. Episode 5: California, California, Not California, Dot Boom California, Dot Bust California, Internet Archive California. My many experiences of California: As dream, as reality, as a broken dream, a bust, and as a dream again.
Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It: A weekly podcast series about stories, technology, nostalgia, wonder, and more stores. Hosted by Jason Scott of TEXTFILES.COM. How Can I Possibly Interview, Listen at Parties, BBS Documentary, The Punishing Road, Favorite Interviews, Sleep Interview, Saddest Interviews, Florida Sink. This podcast is supported by a Patreon at http://patreon.com/textfiles. Jason can be followed at https://twitter.com/textfiles and you are perennially invited to visit his website, TEXTFILES.COM.
Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It: A weekly podcast series about stories, technology, nostalgia, wonder, and more stores. Hosted by Jason Scott of TEXTFILES.COM. I Love My Job, Life at Internet Archive, Laid Off, Sabbatical, Getting Hired, The CEO and the Strip Club, Free. This podcast is supported by a Patreon at http://patreon.com/textfiles. Jason can be followed at https://twitter.com/textfiles and you are perennially invited to visit his website, TEXTFILES.COM.
Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It: A weekly podcast series about stories, technology, nostalgia, wonder, and more stores. Hosted by Jason Scott of TEXTFILES.COM. The Lost Voice, Teleconferences, Expensive, 13 Hours, How-To, Blazing Salads, Alice, The Path, I Got You, Thank You. This podcast is supported by a Patreon at http://patreon.com/textfiles. Jason can be followed at https://twitter.com/textfiles and you are perennially invited to visit his website, TEXTFILES.COM.
Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It: A weekly podcast series about stories, technology, nostalgia, wonder, and more stores. Hosted by Jason Scott of TEXTFILES.COM. Episode One: Onstage, Introduction, Blanket and a Dog, Debt, Hand of God, L00zer-B-Gone, Never Lost, Thank You.
We reminisce about BBS, Geocities and the earliest days of the Web with Internet Archive's Jason Scott. The Internet Archive: [http://archive.org](http://archive.org) Textfiles.com: [http://textfiles.com](http://textfiles.com) Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Paul Harrington, Michael Keith, Lars Boddum, Paul Edwards Our website: [http://theretrohour.com](http://theretrohour.com) Our Facebook: [http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/](http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/) Our Twitter: [http://twitter.com/retrohouruk](http://twitter.com/retrohouruk) Show notes: Night Trap HD update: [http://bit.ly/2p4PTPS](http://bit.ly/2p4PTPS) Atari 8-bit book: [http://bit.ly/2pdIwkq](http://bit.ly/2pdIwkq) Sonic Time Twisted: [http://bit.ly/2pAS7WG](http://bit.ly/2pAS7WG) Spectrum Next funded in one day: [http://bit.ly/2qABrz5](http://bit.ly/2qABrz5) Turn iPhone into a retro Mac: [http://bit.ly/2pdZvD0](http://bit.ly/2pdZvD0)
On this week’s episode of Misconceptions, host Jeff Rubin talks to TextFiles.com’s Jason Scott about preserving an essential piece of Internet history.
Most gamers today probably don't remember that for a while in the 1980s the best-selling, most critically acclaimed computer games didn't have any graphics at all. They were text adventures and were some of the most innovative and challenging forms of entertainment ever conceived. Historian and documentary filmmaker Jason Scott has spent the last four years interviewing the men and women who created these games. The result is Get Lamp, a fascinating documentary about the history of these games-from the original Adventure, through the rise and fall of Infocom, and up to today's interactive fiction scene. Jason Scott is the curator of TextFiles.com and is also the man behind BBS: The Documentary, a look at the computer bulletin board systems that pre-date mass usage of the internet. He's a regular speaker at hacker and technology conferences and his cat has well over a million followers on Twitter. Really.