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textfiles, 4 days ago to random

Found a magazine that appears to be a raunchy bridge between 1950s pulp and modernish adult magazines called CAVALIER. Tons of ads of-their-time.

textfiles, 6 days ago to random

Another day, another previously unseen Luscious Jackson rehearsal tape.

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textfiles, 6 days ago to random

I now realized we passed the tenth anniversary of the FILE FORMATS WIKI without a whisper in 2022. Previously "Just Solve the Problem", the File Formats Problem (not enough documentation and links to tools) was important and big enough that it's still going!

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Main_Page

textfiles, 7 days ago to random

The http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/ site is back and running. My apologies - it had a 49gb httpd log.

textfiles, 9 days ago to random

I would see people write NO REQUESTS PLZ on uploads and offerings and think "that seems unnecessary, and hostile"

Fool, fool that I was

textfiles, 11 days ago to random

I mean, look. Rescued master tapes of interviews with the likes of Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Atari’s Jack Tramiel, MacPaint’s Bill Atkinson, Infocom’s Joel Berez, Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry, musician Herbie Hancock, EA’s Trip Hawkins....

They want to do it RIGHT right, so they're paying a professional to do it. The gofundme is here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/digitizing-the-famous-computer-cafe

Let's put this one to bed quickly. Two episodes are already digitized, there's 54 in total.

textfiles, 12 days ago to random

So, I absolutely love Animal Well.

I can also say unequivocably that if I wasn't CONSTANTLY getting hints from the internet, it would be unsolvable for me. Entirely opaque. Completely impossible.

textfiles, 13 days ago to random

Younger kids might not remember, but the original Star Wars trilogy also had terribly boring scrolling introductions.

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textfiles, 13 days ago to random

This is fine

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textfiles, 14 days ago to random

Do you have a family cookbook in PDF or as a series of scans? Boy, I'd love to help you put them on the archive. DM or ping me.

textfiles, 15 days ago to random

textfiles, 15 days ago to random

No other possibility

textfiles, 15 days ago to random

"Congratulations! Your talk has been accepted for HOPE XV!"

tomjennings, 16 days ago to random

Well this is fucking annoying.

There was an air force emergency communication network called GWEN, (ground wave emergency network), there was one in Essex CA and I took many photos of the site, which was live when I first visited then deceased later, then decommisioned and the site cleared (every stick and post). It was only operational a couple years at the end of the 90s.

I posted a few photos at the wikipedia site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN%2FURC-117_Ground_Wave_Emergency_Network

Well I can't find my photos, I'm fairly diligent about renaming at least some of the photos (the only photo "database" that survives the decades) and... nothing.

Went back to wikipedia and there's no photos any more.

And the site is listed as Fenner CA and it was most definitely in Essex; adjoining town, but this was IN TOWN on the main street (route 66).

Now I have no GWEN pics and I am annoyed.