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Re:textfiles.com by reitzensteinm on Monday April 27, 2020 @08:57AM (#22995348)
The owner of the site gave a talk at DEFCON 17, "That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY&ab_channel=Chris...

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Re:textfiles.com by Eremotherium on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:59AM (#22996444)
He also gave us the brilliant BBS: The Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddbe9OuJLU

GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary (shot in 1080p)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU

and (apart from his many talks) his podcast "Jason Scott talks his way out of it" which is just gem after gem of documented tech ephemera.

https://textfiles.libsyn.com/

It's baffingly hard to quantify how many people he (and all the other great people at the Internet Archive) has affected with his bullheaded conservation efforts.

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Re:textfiles.com by ethagnawl on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:38PM (#22998601)
Jason Scott's podcast _Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It_ is also endlessly interesting, inspirational, entertaining and touching.

Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/jasonscotttalks

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/textfiles/posts

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Re:textfiles.com by msla on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:10PM (#22997724)
He's also the guy who goatse'd MySpace:

Initial post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/989

Post about goatse: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011

More: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1012 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1127

Moral: HOTLINKING BAD

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Re:textfiles.com by ringshall on Monday April 27, 2020 @06:32PM (#23000898)
He says in the second article you link that he doesn’t think hotlinking is bad per se, especially when it’s done in support of knowledge and education.

I think the moral is rather that hotlinking is dangerous.

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Re:textfiles.com by Firehawke on Monday April 27, 2020 @06:35PM (#23000929)
I remember reading these over ten years ago; probably posted on Slashdot back when that place had only started its nosedive. Still pretty funny ~15 years later.
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Re:textfiles.com by EvanAnderson on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:22AM (#22996073)
Any Jason Scott talk is totally worth it. Irongeek, on YouTube, has Jason's DerbyCon talks archived (and likely some others too).
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Re:textfiles.com by nickthemagicman on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:12AM (#22996581)
Haha this isn't going to be some cissp bulls*.

So great.

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Re:textfiles.com by TehCorwiz on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:01AM (#22995389)
I like that talk. Probably one of my favorites.
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Re:textfiles.com by hrdwdmrbl on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:51AM (#22995795)
The owner is also a totally great guy
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Re:textfiles.com by redivysoft on Monday April 27, 2020 @12:53PM (#22997560)
Yep, he took the time to answer questions from highschool me more than a decade ago and he was very friendly.

I'm glad everyone else seems to have had positive interactions with him also.

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Re:textfiles.com by textfiles on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:08PM (#22997713)
Let's not assume everyone had a great time with me because that will fall apart very quickly.

I appreciate when someone young or curious reaches out to me for context or questions because I did that throughout my life and I always appreciated when it was rewarded with a response. I try to be the person I always hoped was on the other side.

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Re:textfiles.com by 1996 on Monday April 27, 2020 @02:59PM (#22998795)
Still, I like that spirit!
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Re:textfiles.com by aantix on Monday April 27, 2020 @12:08PM (#22997141)
Finally, a talk that isn't PC sanitized..
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