Jason Scott

Found a little pile of ONE BBSCON tapes, finally digitized and put them up.

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Hey uh...I need help.

YouTube video by INIT HELLO INIT HELLO - Laine Nooney Keynote

My keynote from last week's @init-hello.org Apple II conference is now online! It only took 2 years but I finally wrote a book talk 😂 (and I think it's pretty ok). Thanks to everyone from INIT for letting me into your cool club, and @textfiles.com for the recording

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5XV...

If you're a Negativland Fan and remember the album HELTER STUPID, David Brom (the boy in the case) has been released to a halfway house, 36 years after being arrested.

DEFCON: THE DOCUMENTARY screening in Highland Park, NJ tonight at the High Park Outdoor Movie Theater. I'll be there and doing a Q&A.

www.facebook.com/HighlandPark...

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I'm just bringing up that when they fumble the bag on android, video, search, persistence, dependability - it's because it doesn't matter as long as it doesn't affect the real core business.

I'm enjoying the rant but search is by no means Google's core business and has not been since early 2007-2009

Yes, archives and libraries will do removals, but usually based on "never checked on in five/ten/fifteen years, not "didn't get used for three months in 2024".

Imagine being this stupid.

I do

INIT HELLO You have a diskette and you want to start fresh. So you run “INIT HELLO” on your Apple II and you get a clean slate.

INIT HELLO's presentations are now all up on Youtube (I'll mirror to Internet Archive after they get attention and traffic, which they deserve).

There are a small amount because presentations were not the focus, community was. It was nice.

www.youtube.com/@INIT-HELLO

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I am entirely fine with the Stop Killing Games initiative. I am less fine with the SKG advocates who direct-message bombed me for weeks demanding I do something.

That's my secret, captain - I'm always doing something.

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We now have MORE requests for HOPE scholarships than are available. Please help someone attend who might otherwise never get the chance. We're really making history this year. store.2600.com/products/tic...

This seems dire.

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BBS Documentary 20th Anniversary Fundraise Sale This post has two interesting aspects: It will disappear when it’s finished what it set out to do, and it’s also a fundraising for another fundraiser. This is the 20th anniversary of th…

I'm closing up this "sale", truly the worst deal in DVD sales, early next week, probably Tuesday. If you were wondering if you still had a chance to lose $200 buying a DVD set, this is it. I'm down to a little more than a dozen, and they'll go into the vault.

ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5755

Occasionally an end-of-life goal

Literally the opposite of side eye

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Let's Keep Calling!

Say goodbye to a working arm

If Nick says "I Will Survive" at any point in Zootopia 2, the fan fiction hordes will leave the Disney offices whole.

I was sent a pile of SCSI drives with the note "maybe something interesting is on them" and yeah, I think some mislaid captures of 1990s-era internet tv show episodes counts. I'll announce when they're all in.

I Will Survive, by Borba [FULL COMIC] – Zootopia News Network

With the announcement of Zootopia 2 comes people remembering that someone made a fan fiction comic of Zootopia that came so hard, classic and emotional that nearly a decade later they still remember it. Now it's your turn. (Or not, it's pretty intense.)

www.zootopianewsnetwork.com/2017/06/i-wi...

Archive will have the visualizer shortly.

It took ten years to hit this, but it was done. From rows and rows of shelves to browsable, free manuals. Not the fastest, but definitely a great moment.

Scanning has begun of the last "easy-lift" Manuals Plus manuals that the archive is scanning. (There's another set that will need some hand-sorting, and the HP/Tektronix manuals don't need scanning.) So expect this collection to swell:

archive.org/details/manu...

Post-9/11 coworker discovers Winamp for the first time via Internet Archive (big shout out to IA for using web Winamp of all things)

"Damn, this program is kinda cool"
"Oh man you can put different skins on it?"

Meanwhile I'm over here crumbling to dust