TEXTFILES.COM
| TEXTFILES.COM | |
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| URL | http://textfiles.com/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
| Status | Online! |
| Archiving status | In progress... (partially saved at IA) |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
TEXTFILES.COM is a archiving site focused mainly on text files.
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Backup tools and progress
Since the early 2000s, the webmaster of textfiles, Jason Scott, has been making the TEXTFILES.COM site available for mirroring from a variety of sources - these mirrors are shown at the top of the opening screen of the site. Ultimately, the sites known as TEXTFILES.COM and WEB.TEXTFILES.COM were uploaded to the Internet Archive as a series of .7z files in early 2011 (see The TEXTFILES.COM Time Capsule - 17024875023 bytes uncompressed, 11591761683 bytes compressed, 285552 files, 5608 folders)
As part of his 2009 Sabbatical, Jason added rsync mirrors to every TEXTFILES.COM subsite, including PDF, ARTSCENE, and AUDIO.
How can I help?
Excerpt from http://textfiles.com/support:
What is of primary concern to me [Jason Scott] is saving the files and text from the 1980's, and that text is located on now-aging disks, tape, and even, I dare say, 10 and 20 meg hard drives. When those media go, that's the end of that data, and I know I haven't gotten every important file ever created. If you've got some old disks that have files you never did anything with, please consider sending them or a copy of them to me. That stuff is precious; and it is rare; and it is finite. That's what matters.
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