You might want to check some edge cases. What if you pick full lines only and the start position happens to be exactly at the start of a line?
#Textfiles
Long before Reddit threads and Discord servers, knowledge was passed around in plain text. textfiles.com, created by Jason Scott in the late 1990s, is a sprawling archive of text files from the BBS era—covering hacking, phreaking, anarchy, warez, conspiracy theories, and every oddball subculture that thrived on dial-up lines.
The site preserves a snapshot of digital rebellion and DIY culture, capturing the raw, unfiltered voice of early net denizens. It's not just nostalgia—it’s a vital historical record of how knowledge was shared when bandwidth was precious and curiosity was everything.
Still online and still growing, textfiles.com reminds us that the roots of digital freedom were written in monospace, passed hand to hand, and never meant to disappear.
#textfiles #BBSHistory #Cyberculture #HackerLore #DigitalPreservation #UndergroundInternet
Today I Learned that the birth of FAX is owed to The Third Reich. :ablobspin:
http://www.textfiles.com/computers/twxhist.txt
#todayilearned #telex #fax #history #textfiles
For St. Louisans, March 14 is #314Day! ⚜️ ☎️ 🎉
In celebration, I'm sharing a tiny tech time capsule — a collection of textfiles related to St. Louis-area #BBS networks!
I gathered these 30 years ago when I was cosysop of "Something in the Attic BBS" and seeking to attract more users.
Brace yourself for all manner of capitalization! (PIllowNet, SPORKnet, StupidNET)
Ending "z"s!
And lots of exclamation marks!
Here's the thing I made that WordPress lost its shit over. It's a study guide for the Salesforce admin exam I made myself (with the help of wifey for the cover). I'd written up a little something about it, but to hell with that. I wanted to make flash cards and wanted ALL the info in one place, which Salesforce doesn't provide in a decent manner. So here it is. Any help editing or formatting, go nuts.
These are the 7 files I printed to make this bad boy: https://drive.proton.me/urls/V4EHCTZVX0#QtneDpYea2UY
#Salesforce #SalesforceAdmin #DIY #projects #wip #TextFiles #writing #CRM #DIYProjects
Lifehacker: Use This App Instead of Excel to Directly Edit CSV Files. “ModernCSV, an indie app for Linux, Mac, and Windows computers, is the best tool I’ve come across for this purpose. If you work with CSV files frequency, or just need to edit one quickly, it’s worth checking out. This application is built specifically with CSV files in mind and makes working with them simple.”
In the early days of the internet, before slick blogs and endless social media feeds, TEXTFILES.COM was a goldmine for hackers, phreakers, and digital explorers. Launched in 1998 by Jason Scott, the site preserves thousands of underground documents from the BBS era. Guides on phone phreaking, early hacking techniques, and cyber counterculture manifestos are all there. It is a time capsule of raw, unfiltered knowledge from an era when the internet was wild and untamed. If you want to see where digital rebellion started, TEXTFILES.COM is still up, still free, and still essential reading.
#Hacking #Phreaking #BBS #RetroComputing #Cyberpunk #Textfiles
textfiles.com is a cool site. #textfiles
Saw something about using text files for notes instead of things like Word or Evernote or Notion. I don't use those apps, but I do end up putting things in Samsung Notes or Google Docs all the time, and those are ethereal. If I switch to a non-Samsung phone or ditch Google, they're gone.
I liked the idea of just plain text files in a local spot on my phone, I've always loved text files anyway. So I looked in the Play store, and sure enough, there's an app called txtpad+. I love it. Simple UI. You choose the location to save, and then make your files. Easy as hell.
Here it is on the Play store, it's free.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vladyslavpohrebniakov.txtpad
Adám Brudzewsky is now demonstrating how Dyalog 19.0 lets you initialise and launch applications directly from text files—no session or workspace files needed.
In my cabin, reasonably far away from civilization and with tacky reception.
All websites should have a text file alternative.
#textfiles
YouTube destroyed the internet.
#textfiles
Could anything give me more joy than this? Discmaster is the greatest, and every one of these improvements sounds awesome.
#discmaster #digipres #textfiles #internetarchive #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
Do you have any examples of neat #textfiles formatting?
Not exactly talking about figlet/ANSI-style headings and logos, but headings, table frames, fleurons, dingbats etc.
🌗 TEXTFILES.COM 網站的風采
➤ ASCII字符所凝聚的藝術與歷史
✤ http://www.textfiles.com/index.html
TEXTFILES.COM 是一個線上超過25年的網站，提供著重於20世紀80年代的文字檔案及相關文化的資料，深入探討ASCII所帶來的影響。這裡不僅僅是關於文字檔案，而是提供了作家與藝術家在ASCII碼的限制下創作的歷史，也提供了捌拾年代的文字檔案及現今相關文化的延續。若喜歡TEXTFILES.COM，可以透過社羣媒體分享並使用 #textfiles 標籤。此外，這個網站一直以來是沒有廣告或點選廣告，如果想要支持網站的維護成本，可以透過Paypal或Venmo進行捐款。
+ 這個網站真的是一個寶庫，提供了豐富的歷史資料和藝術作品，而且對於不同年代的文字檔案進行收集整理，讓人能深入瞭解文化的發展。
+ 好棒的資源，瞭解ASCII字符如何影響藝術和文化，真的很有啟發性。
#文字檔案 #ASCII #歷史 #藝術
For your convenience on how to use this website we've made this little film.
It's almost as dumb as...
If you want to know how to read this book you'd better listen to this cassette first.
@larsfrommars Here are more mostly free digital archives, some focusing on historical and ancient documents, and some on early digital age text documents. Some of the University archives may have some texts that are not free alongside their free collections. I have enjoyed reading from these and many other archives since the dawn of the Internet.
Christian Ethereal Classics Library
ccel.org/
The Avalon Project at Yale University
avalon.law.yale.edu/
Topos Texts
topostext.org/texts
Perseus Digital Library
www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
Harvard Classics Texts
classics.fas.harvard.edu/ancie…
Early Americas Digital Archive
eada.lib.umd.edu/
Early American Sources
www.earlyamericansources.org/d…
Project Whittenberg
www.projectwittenberg.org/
Sacred Texts Archive
sacred-texts.com/
Archive.org Ebooks
archive.org/details/texts
Early BBS & Internet Text Files
textfiles.com/
The Old Usenet Archive
olduse.net/
National Archives Historical Documents
www.archives.gov/historical-do…
National Archives Founding Documents
www.archives.gov/founding-docs
Smithsonian Institution Archives
siarchives.si.edu/
Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives
sova.si.edu/
Library of Congress Archive Collections
www.loc.gov/web-archives/colle…
The Latin Library
thelatinlibrary.com/
#SyferShock #TextFiles #Ebooks #Archives #Reading #Research #Library #Libraries #History #Classics
#Textfiles.com is such a #bizzare blast from the #past. To a point every time I find that site again (basically #remembering it exists 😅) and read through some of the #text files. It gives a bit of #nostalgia. While some of the stuff are wayyy beyond my time I've seen references to them in forums before.
It's a nice read through perse. It got directories/categories of #ASCII art to #stories to the most fun... The #Anarchy section. Just remember anything in the anarchy section is uhhh... Don't try the stuff listed. 😂💀👀
The site in question:
http://textfiles.com/directory.html
DiscMaster is what the internet should be > https://discmaster.textfiles.com .. thank you, #textfiles crew
📎 Link of the day: http://textfiles.com/
📂 Category: Computers » History
Textfiles.com is an enormous collection of #textfiles from the 1980's, the dawn of modern computing history. "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."
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