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Saving Digital History: A Quick and Dirty Guide, by Jason Scott (Hope 2004 Conference)
From the H2K4 Program: "Knowledge doesn't move forward without history and while there have been many steps to capture the stories, lore, and data of different aspects of computer cultures, a lot of the same mistakes are made over and over. In a fast-paced talk, Jason Scott of textfiles.com busts...

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27 itemsWelcome to Textfiles BBS Audio

The Textfiles audio collection is a varied set of audio files collected by Jason Scott, curator of textfiles.com. These are recordings about and from the era of the domination of ASCII and Dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (roughly the 1970s through the 1990s, with examples far before and after that).

textfiles.com was founded in 1998 to collect rapidly disappearing Bulletin Board System texts, especially those written in ASCII (the American Standard Code for Information Interchange). Over the ensuing years, the goals of the website have expanded as more and more artifacts have become available.

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