Jason Scott
@textfiles.com
Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
I'm enjoying it, it's like when they used to get kids interested in math and language using musical cartoons
We have to take the phrase "Lost Media" away from YouTubers for awhile until they reeducate themselves on what that actually means.
January 15, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I'm enjoying it, it's like when they used to get kids interested in math and language using musical cartoons
TV Tropes
I decided some years ago that there are 4 websites critical to access to information that need to be protected: Wikipedia, The Internet Archive, Openstreetmap and ...
Because I didn't write down the list back then, I blanked on no. 4, and am still blanking on it.
Anyway, congrats to Wikipedia!
Because I didn't write down the list back then, I blanked on no. 4, and am still blanking on it.
Anyway, congrats to Wikipedia!
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
TV Tropes
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vertical shmups have names like "Understated Sadness" and sidescrolling shmups have names like "Glorbian"
January 9, 2026 at 2:56 AM
vertical shmups have names like "Understated Sadness" and sidescrolling shmups have names like "Glorbian"
In a row of chairs with plantation owners, press gang whip crackers, and sweatshop managers, Taylor Kurosaki of No Moon Studio comfortably takes his seat
January 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In a row of chairs with plantation owners, press gang whip crackers, and sweatshop managers, Taylor Kurosaki of No Moon Studio comfortably takes his seat
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He's contacting you from the cloud!
January 14, 2026 at 4:36 PM
He's contacting you from the cloud!
Berkeley Breathed, 1988 Comics Journal Interview
January 14, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Berkeley Breathed, 1988 Comics Journal Interview
10 people care, but this is where Dan Ackroyd got the idea for the town in NOTHING BUT TROUBLE. (He got the idea for an insane judge running the town from a speeding ticket he got where the sheriff immediately drove him to the judge's house to wake his honor up so he could run court on the spot.)
Hi perhaps you would like a little break from the news in the form of an essay about my trip to Centralia, Pennsylvania, the town that’s been on fire since 1962—a place where surprisingly I found a great deal of hope, wonder, and mystery.
The Rebirth of Pennsylvania’s Infamous Burning Town
Sixty years into the fire that left the town condemned, Centralia is now a haven for wild plants and butterflies.
www.atlasobscura.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:32 AM
10 people care, but this is where Dan Ackroyd got the idea for the town in NOTHING BUT TROUBLE. (He got the idea for an insane judge running the town from a speeding ticket he got where the sheriff immediately drove him to the judge's house to wake his honor up so he could run court on the spot.)
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If you've ever wondered about the infrastructure behind the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, check out this teardown ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
January 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
If you've ever wondered about the infrastructure behind the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, check out this teardown ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
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Had no idea you could play games on internet archive... Go secret 90s magical girls
January 13, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Had no idea you could play games on internet archive... Go secret 90s magical girls
Subskeet: ha ha ha HA ha ha ha ha HA ha
a cartoon character wearing a blue hoodie is standing in front of a fire .
ALT: a cartoon character wearing a blue hoodie is standing in front of a fire .
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Subskeet: ha ha ha HA ha ha ha ha HA ha
[ Puts down box with one corner propped up by a stick and a rope leading around to a bush, and a book sitting underneath the box ]
Come here, little guy, nobody's gonna hurt you
Come here, little guy, nobody's gonna hurt you
January 13, 2026 at 1:08 AM
[ Puts down box with one corner propped up by a stick and a rope leading around to a bush, and a book sitting underneath the box ]
Come here, little guy, nobody's gonna hurt you
Come here, little guy, nobody's gonna hurt you
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For Sale: Katanas, Never Drawn
January 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
For Sale: Katanas, Never Drawn
This is not the way to lodge a complaint.
January 12, 2026 at 1:03 AM
This is not the way to lodge a complaint.
Highlighting this silly exchange I had because I want to be explicit: Escrow protest pretty much never works. I watched multiple businesses I had been observing go under from that schennanigan, and a similar situation caused one of the largest personal collections of computer history to dissolve.
January 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Highlighting this silly exchange I had because I want to be explicit: Escrow protest pretty much never works. I watched multiple businesses I had been observing go under from that schennanigan, and a similar situation caused one of the largest personal collections of computer history to dissolve.
Just wanted to stop in to mention the more you keep a conversation going on Tik-Tok the more money you make, full stop.
there is a woman on TikTok who has been arguing for months now with randos that keep insisting that nobody called 3.5" disks "floppy disks" or "floppies" at the time. it's weird. no matter what kind of proof she provides or how many agree with her, people are coming out of the woodwork to disagree
January 11, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Just wanted to stop in to mention the more you keep a conversation going on Tik-Tok the more money you make, full stop.
I'm really enjoying this. But if people think this is all I am doing, that's on you.
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I'm really enjoying this. But if people think this is all I am doing, that's on you.
Can think of at least another one
Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet? | WIRED www.wired.com/story/is-cra...
Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”
www.wired.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Can think of at least another one
I think I'd pay, at this point, for a Facebook setting of "No longer show me generalized news articles turned into ragebait waterfalls where 30% of the commentors are bots whipping the other 70% into a frenzy"
January 10, 2026 at 4:40 AM
I think I'd pay, at this point, for a Facebook setting of "No longer show me generalized news articles turned into ragebait waterfalls where 30% of the commentors are bots whipping the other 70% into a frenzy"
