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What is it? I like the aggressive oldschool design, but it isn’t clear from the first glance, what is it, a forum, news aggregator, or..?
by ansgri 7y ago
What is it? I like the aggressive oldschool design, but it isn’t clear from the first glance, what is it, a forum, news aggregator, or..?
- oezi 7y agoClicked that for you: FILE_ID.DIZ This web page is a CIA operation designed to amplify subculture linkstuffs
- ansgri 7y agoThanks! Didn't recognize that as an 'about' link, not that familiar with the pre-web culture, I guess.
- madaxe_again 7y agoFile_id.diz isn’t pre-web, despite its origins in BBSs - it’s an archive descriptor, most commonly associated with the warez scene. I guess it largely died along with dialup, when multipart archives stopped being a necessity for large downloads.
- hyperdimension 7y agoI've seen file_id.diz before, but any insight as to what 'DIZ' is? I can figure out what, e.g. an .nfo file is, but I'm having trouble with .diz.
- aasasd 7y agoWikipedia even has an article on these files: it says, ‘FILE_ID stands for "file identification". DIZ stands for Description In Zipfile’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ
- taneq 7y agoI... think it's a counterculture news aggregator? It's so edgy it may have fallen off, though. Certainly an interesting art project.