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1. 61.▲
   by textfiles 2y ago

   ice burn
2. 62.▲
   by textfiles 3y ago

   Your statement is incorrect, then and now.
3. 63.▲
   by textfiles 3y ago

   Conspiracy theories are always amusing, but I can assure you there isn't some billionaire sitting with a check in case things go incredibly south. I would tell you that things you are defining is risky are simply steps being taken for
4. 64.▲
   by textfiles 3y ago

   We didn't coordinate directly, but when people were telling me that the site was going down and I saw that it was less than 20 GB, I would rate my personal panic at a two out of a scale of 1 to 50. I figured some of the copies we alrea
5. 65.▲
   by textfiles 3y ago

   high-five
6. 66.▲
   by textfiles 3y ago

   You chose two pretty out-there examples to prove the point; I'll leave it to the class to determine why.
7. 67.▲
   by textfiles 3y ago

   Just as a note, you're only getting some of the data that way. The contents of textfiles.com are roughly 2 terabytes of *.textfiles.com endeavors and another 13 terabytes of mirrors and hosting I do.
8. 68.▲
   by textfiles 3y ago

   Don't let the others keep you down. Keep fighting and I'm sure we can take this Jason Scott guy down. I believe in you, and there's many of us.
9. 69.▲
   by textfiles 3y ago

   As people are wildly speculating in this thread (it is Hackernews, after all), I'll just say that yes, more than you can imagine, my provider has been instrumental on the site staying up through a number of challenges and controversies
10. 70.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    I never forgot, so you could remember.
11. 71.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    Sorry it didn't work out, but thank you for trying. I often say that things are rare because life happened, not because of some incompetence or evil. We do our best to preserve and not everything makes it.
12. 72.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    My pillow is soft and I sleep well.
13. 73.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    You rang?
14. 74.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    Shout out to you, my boy
15. 75.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    This is Jason Scott of the Internet Archive, by the way. (jscott@archive.org). Knowing how HackerNews is, I am sure this comment will end up buried far beneath the thread.
16. 76.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    Hi.
17. 77.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    Happy to take them.
18. 78.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    Heyyyyy Phil! Great to see you here. - Jason Scott
19. 79.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    Brian, never change.
20. 80.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    Oh, THAT old thing?
21. 81.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    https://archive.org/donate
22. 82.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    It is literally an advertisement for the Video Game History Foundation. This is their fundraising month and to help people understand the work they do and the importance of saving these artifacts, they are posting a new artifact every day t
23. 83.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    This article was absolutely incredible, and I expect it to land on The Hacker News Community with a dull thud. But huge thanks to bdr for highlighting it.
24. 84.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    Get it off get it off get it off get it off get it off get it off
25. 85.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    All hail
26. 86.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    I showed up and got an excellent pushback.
27. 87.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    Complaining about the answers gotten is always a surefire way to acquire more quality ones.
28. 88.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    So, the internet archive scans an average of 3,500 books a day, so hopefully we will get to it.
29. 89.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    Don't worry, I'll emotionally recover.
30. 90.▲
    by textfiles 3y ago

    Hear me, and hear me clear: Fuck any proprietary format trying to own the ability to recover history.