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TEXTFILES.COM Mirror Sites: US .CA .EU .DE US-VA US-FL BC-CA GOPHERSPACE If you enjoy textfiles.com, tweet about it with hashtag #textfiles. Thanks to "0x0ddc0ffee" for covering the hosting bill this month. On the face of things, we seem to be merely talking about text-based files, containing only the letters of the English Alphabet (and the occasional punctuation mark). On deeper inspection, of course, this isn’t quite the case. What this site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980’s textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day. TEXTFILES.COM Sites ASCII BBSDOCUMENTARY ARTSCENE BBSHISTORY CD DISCMASTER DIGEST WEB BBSLIST TIMELINE PDF AUDIO TEXTFILES.COM has been online for nearly 25 years with no ads or clickthroughs. If you feel like donating to its roughly $1200 yearly upkeep: Paypal or Venmo . (If you prefer a different method, you can always contact Jason...