Jason Scott
@textfiles.com
Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Help me make a terrible mistake - testing some little prototype experiment with anyone who DMs me the name of their favorite atari cartridge. If you do, you get a URL and a password and you play with a crowdsourced vote-on-where-it-goes-at-internet-archive thing. I'll delete this when it's done.
a black and white photo of a room with a lot of electrical equipment and smoke coming out of it .
ALT: a black and white photo of a room with a lot of electrical equipment and smoke coming out of it .
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Help me make a terrible mistake - testing some little prototype experiment with anyone who DMs me the name of their favorite atari cartridge. If you do, you get a URL and a password and you play with a crowdsourced vote-on-where-it-goes-at-internet-archive thing. I'll delete this when it's done.
I am so inclined to make some sort of metaphorical reference to this,. but it is its own metaphor:
Please do not upload books scanned by the Internet Archive to the Internet Archive.
A surprising number of people are doing this! You're literally wasting hardware and money at the joint!
Please do not upload books scanned by the Internet Archive to the Internet Archive.
A surprising number of people are doing this! You're literally wasting hardware and money at the joint!
December 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I am so inclined to make some sort of metaphorical reference to this,. but it is its own metaphor:
Please do not upload books scanned by the Internet Archive to the Internet Archive.
A surprising number of people are doing this! You're literally wasting hardware and money at the joint!
Please do not upload books scanned by the Internet Archive to the Internet Archive.
A surprising number of people are doing this! You're literally wasting hardware and money at the joint!
You bet! Come down to textfiles.com Plaza and we'll get you an office in the BIOC AGENT Pavillion - plenty of parking
December 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
You bet! Come down to textfiles.com Plaza and we'll get you an office in the BIOC AGENT Pavillion - plenty of parking
2040: what was the AI revolution of the 2020s like, in 10 seconds
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
2040: what was the AI revolution of the 2020s like, in 10 seconds
DISPERSE THE CABLE
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
DISPERSE THE CABLE
I used to be in teams with guys like this.
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I used to be in teams with guys like this.
Reposted by Jason Scott
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
The Ultimate Portable.
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Ultimate Portable.
Pasting this so I can stop looking warmly at the browser window when my favorite guardian, Mr. Coffee, shows up in his tab.
December 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Pasting this so I can stop looking warmly at the browser window when my favorite guardian, Mr. Coffee, shows up in his tab.
Reposted by Jason Scott
For those who keep hearing about how Disco Elysium is one of the greatest games ever made: it's free on Epic Games Store, INCLUDING THE MAC VERSION (which doesn't seem to be on Internet Archive unless I've missed something)
but only for the next 18 hours, SO GRAB IT
but only for the next 18 hours, SO GRAB IT
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
For those who keep hearing about how Disco Elysium is one of the greatest games ever made: it's free on Epic Games Store, INCLUDING THE MAC VERSION (which doesn't seem to be on Internet Archive unless I've missed something)
but only for the next 18 hours, SO GRAB IT
but only for the next 18 hours, SO GRAB IT
Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring
Except Jason was sorting thousands of uploaded catalogs to the catalogs collection
archive.org/details/cata...
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring
Except Jason was sorting thousands of uploaded catalogs to the catalogs collection
archive.org/details/cata...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
December 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring
Except Jason was sorting thousands of uploaded catalogs to the catalogs collection
archive.org/details/cata...
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring
Except Jason was sorting thousands of uploaded catalogs to the catalogs collection
archive.org/details/cata...
Reddit trying to fomo me into my own subreddit
December 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Reddit trying to fomo me into my own subreddit
A letter arriving from my insurance company on Christmas Eve to tell me that they are not going to cover a drug that I want to take is very on the nose
December 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
A letter arriving from my insurance company on Christmas Eve to tell me that they are not going to cover a drug that I want to take is very on the nose
Everybody has learned our lesson, once again, about making copies of everything that is released to Great Fanfare, right?
December 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Everybody has learned our lesson, once again, about making copies of everything that is released to Great Fanfare, right?
Reposted by Jason Scott
If you're looking for a nice fireplace video tonight, or really anytime, we have an excellent three-hour fire with lots of crackling on @archive.org -- streaming, or to download for later: archive.org/details/TheB...
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
If you're looking for a nice fireplace video tonight, or really anytime, we have an excellent three-hour fire with lots of crackling on @archive.org -- streaming, or to download for later: archive.org/details/TheB...
When you see somebody make a tik-tok comment about how a story doesn't add up since computers didn't really have modems until the 90s and you open the reply window
a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a crowd
ALT: a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a crowd
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
When you see somebody make a tik-tok comment about how a story doesn't add up since computers didn't really have modems until the 90s and you open the reply window
While everything goes bazoo and everyone is dropping their opinions that might get them in trouble, I just want to say that ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979) has the most chaste locker room scene ever filmed during the sex comedy days of the 1970s-1980s
December 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
While everything goes bazoo and everyone is dropping their opinions that might get them in trouble, I just want to say that ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979) has the most chaste locker room scene ever filmed during the sex comedy days of the 1970s-1980s
Stepping in where I wasn't asked to say this is the most unhinged project chart I've seen in my personal memory
Twilight Princess is now 100% decompiled!!
December 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Stepping in where I wasn't asked to say this is the most unhinged project chart I've seen in my personal memory
Virtual: The amount of supermarket circulars people upload
archive.org/details/supe...
archive.org/details/supe...
December 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Virtual: The amount of supermarket circulars people upload
archive.org/details/supe...
archive.org/details/supe...