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2026 2

  1. The Browner World: In The Realm of Programme 4
  2. Manuals Plus: The Wrap-Up

2025 3

  1. In Which My Situation is Discussed.
  2. I No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals. (But You Probably Should.)
  3. Bodaciously True and Totally Awesome

2024 6

  1. The Dying Computer Museum
  2. The Most Interesting Uninteresting Thing
  3. A Never-Ending Block Party
  4. I Continue To No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals
  5. I Am No Longer Attending Vintage Computer Festivals
  6. In Realtime: Digital Heaven (And a Call for Donations)

2023 8

  1. Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami
  2. The Great Aboveground Empire
  3. Discord, or the Death of Lore
  4. The Grind a Day
  5. Priority and Process
  6. How I Do It, Buffered By Cries I Am Doing It Wrong
  7. Archiving in the Time of Streaming
  8. Infinite Inboxes of Infinity

2020 1

  1. Is This Thing On?

2018 2

  1. The Full BBS Documentary Interviews are Going Online
  2. The Undiscovered

2017 10

  1. Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It: A Podcast
  2. The Bounty of the Ted Nelson Junk Mail
  3. 4 Months!
  4. Ted Nelson’s Junk Mail (and the Archive Corps Pilot)
  5. A Lot of Doing
  6. Please Help Us Track Down Apple II Collections
  7. Sandpapering Screenshots
  8. Thoughts on a Collection: Apple II Floppies in the Realm of the Now
  9. The Followup
  10. The Other Half

2016 28

  1. Now That’s What I Call Script-Assisted-Classified Pattern Recognized Music
  2. Back That Thing Up
  3. In Which I Tell You It’s A Good Idea To Support a Magazine-Scanning Patreon
  4. A Simple Explanation: VLC.js
  5. A Simple Request: VLC.js
  6. The Festival Floppies
  7. Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release is the OS News of the Year
  8. Who’s Going to be the Hip Hop Hero
  9. Karateka: The Alpha and the Beta
  10. MAME 0.175 Arrives and the Emularity Follows
  11. A Showcase for a Terrible Monitor
  12. The Fundamental Kickstarter Film Incompatibility
  13. Atari and Arcade Kickstarters To Back
  14. Thousands More Hip-Hop Mixtapes, Why So
  15. Breaking the Dragon’s Back (What 2016 Is, Update)
  16. A Demoparty in a Browser
  17. Thousands of Hip Hop Mix Tapes, Why Not
  18. The Manual Rescue: Take Two, And Please Help
  19. The Manual Rescue: A High and Low Day
  20. The 2005 Podcast Core Sample
  21. 5 Years at the Internet Archive: The Party
  22. The Historical Laundry Conundrum (Find a Home for Shirts)
  23. The Emularity Sounds Better
  24. Reboot Continues
  25. The Secret Feature of EM-DOSBOX on Internet Archive
  26. Archivebot and Automatic Betterment
  27. Even Just the CD-ROMs
  28. What 2016 Is

2015 41

  1. JSMESS Achieves a Hero’s Death
  2. The Rest of the Infocom Cabinet
  3. A Cabinet of Infocom Curiousities
  4. Close the Air Gap
  5. Archiving 3,500 Hours of Stupid
  6. The Internet Archive Telethon
  7. In Realtime: Some Initial Sorting and The Power of Two
  8. 8-Bit Generation – It Lives. (And has a Kickstarter.)
  9. A Little Bit of the Manuals
  10. Digitize the Planet
  11. In Realtime: Post-Mortem
  12. A Small Dark Detour
  13. In Realtime: It Is Done
  14. In Realtime: Day 2 Felt Like Week 4
  15. In Realtime: We are barely halfway done
  16. In Realtime: Prepping for the Transfer of 25,000 Manuals
  17. In Realtime: Saving 25,000 Manuals
  18. Slide Reboot
  19. A Stayed Hand
  20. An Invitation into the Stacks
  21. MAME and the New Emulation Reality
  22. The Backing Up of the Internet Archive Continues: Hop In
  23. A Piece of Apple II History Cracks Open
  24. Yes, I Want Your Goddamn AOL CDs
  25. I Helped Make a Shirt!
  26. My Smarty-Smart Boss, 23 Years Ago
  27. That Time Archive Team Decided to Back Up The Internet Archive
  28. Behold the Emularity
  29. Lazy Game Reviews: The Lazier Response
  30. The Springtime of Internet Archive V2.0
  31. Embed-able Computers are a Thing.
  32. Scan, No Scan (and a Cube in the mix)
  33. Taxes
  34. The BITSAVERS Renewal
  35. The Emularity
  36. The Haze of Possibility
  37. The Digital Nostalgia Heat Differential
  38. Love and Noir in the Time of Ebooks
  39. That Whole Thing With Sound in In-Browser Emulation
  40. The MS-DOS Flood (And the High Flight of V2)
  41. The MS-DOS Showcase (And The Ascension of Version 2)

2014 33

  1. Each New Boot a Miracle
  2. The Tourist, The Researcher, The Maniac
  3. Pain
  4. It’s Time To Keep Solving the File Format Problem
  5. Gamepads!
  6. Before It All Arrives
  7. The Internet Arcade: And Where Are You?
  8. So, You Found the Internet Arcade
  9. The Internet Arcade
  10. The Software Library
  11. Making Historic Software Eternal
  12. The Mirrorball
  13. The 8-Bit Generation Reboot
  14. Statement by Jason Scott on Archive Team
  15. OASIS at SXSW: An Asking Thing
  16. The Need for JSMESS Speed
  17. Screenshots Forever and Ever Until You Can’t Stand it
  18. WHAT the Cloud?
  19. The JSMESS Sound Emergency
  20. A Very Big Sort, or The Epic of Deaccessioning
  21. MindCandy: The Last Bright Star Before the Media Dims
  22. Rise of the Screen Shotgun
  23. The Robot Army of Good Enough
  24. Saved! Sort of.
  25. Letter to David Stiles
  26. Three Times the Consoles, Three Times the Carts, Three Times the Library
  27. A Few Words on DIE GSTETTENSAGA
  28. Five Unemulated Computer Experiences
  29. My First Arcade
  30. The Flippy Disk Thing
  31. The Pit
  32. FTP’s Bright Sunset and Frozen Night
  33. Let a Thousand Cartridges Play

2013 39

  1. The Distrust Sphinchter
  2. The Fuel Costs of Not Moving
  3. The JSMESS Endgame
  4. The Frightening Cornucopia
  5. A Thing With Feathers
  6. JSMESS Makes a Little Noise
  7. JSMESS Now Supports USB Joypads. Sort of.
  8. Lost in the Sands of Internet Time
  9. Looking for Volunteers for the Scanning Brigade
  10. Just Keep Solving the Problem Month
  11. Fool Me 16,380 Times, Shame on Me
  12. JSMESS and the Big Day
  13. Scanning: Some Thoughts
  14. The Game Preservation Discussion Shortcut Cavalcade
  15. Some Last Triage of the DEFCON Documentary
  16. The JSMESS Triumph
  17. The Secret Inaction of a Cancelled Documentary
  18. One Last Bit on JSMESS for a While
  19. More JSMESS: Little Help Here
  20. The Javascript MESS Plays Commodore 64, Commodore PET, and Apple IIc
  21. The Javascript MESS Plays Atari Today
  22. Life Inside Brewster’s Magnificent Contraption
  23. Exploding The Phone: The Last Word on Phone Phreak History
  24. Not for Hire: One Conference Documentary Director
  25. It Stinks!
  26. DEFCON: The Documentary
  27. Catch Up Month
  28. Goodbye Coins, Hello Lower Price
  29. International Shipping Ends
  30. Change Computer History Forever: Well, Here We Are
  31. Here is How Not to Do It
  32. An Open Letter to TOSEC
  33. The Javascript MESS Enters Beta
  34. See Also
  35. Just Solve Dan Tobias’ Problem (and File Formats, too).
  36. The Scanning Brigade Comes Home (Join me in NY)
  37. My Buddy Aaron
  38. Documenting it at MAGfest
  39. That Time I Put BITSAVERS into ARCHIVE.ORG

2012 40

  1. Ding Ding Ding
  2. Spoiler Alert for 2013
  3. Kickstarter in Autumn
  4. Kickstarter in Summer
  5. The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History
  6. Missing in Action: 8-Bit Generation Documentary
  7. The Holiday Hard Drive (Donate to Internet Archive, Please)
  8. What a Wonder is a Terrible Monitor
  9. GET LAMP Raw Interviews Pretty Much Up
  10. Why You Should Follow the Digital Antiquarian
  11. Just Solving the Problem: A Review
  12. A Month of Entries
  13. JSMESS Breakthroughs
  14. Just Solve the Problem Month 2012: Nitty Gritty
  15. Just Solve the Problem 2012: High-Level Stuff
  16. Someone’s Been Talking
  17. The Charge of the Scan Brigade
  18. What’s New at the Ol’ Salt Mines
  19. Sony Vegas Media Bins: Not Ready for Prime Time
  20. The Last of the GET LAMP Batch
  21. Javascript Hero: The New Batch
  22. Been a Little Busy.
  23. Let’s Just Solve the Problem Month
  24. The Archive Team Kickstarter Prize Round-Up
  25. The GET LAMP Raw Interview Flood
  26. Kickstarter Endorsement: GIT ANNEX ASSISTANT
  27. UNDO DEL IUMA
  28. The DEFCON Documentary
  29. One Year Update: Jason and the Internet Archive
  30. What Selling Out Reads Like
  31. Javascript Hero: Well, That Was Fast.
  32. Javascript Hero: Success / Your Big Moment
  33. Haircut and a Holocaust
  34. Taking the Sears Time Machine for a Test Drive
  35. On the On the Media
  36. …and here we are.
  37. Listen! (A Lost Project)
  38. Javascript Hero: A Hero Appears
  39. A Consideration of an Infocom Kickstarter
  40. The Jason Scott Machine

2011 68

  1. GODADDY SOPA BLAH
  2. Wikiwhatever (A Retirement)
  3. Kickstarter: All I Know
  4. The Flood Never Ended (And a Pledge Drive)
  5. Dear Brian
  6. The Typewriter Test
  7. Building a Cast List
  8. Escalation
  9. Kickstarting The Details
  10. Javascript Hero: Change Computer History Forever
  11. Joe’s Offer
  12. I Can Convert Your Betacam SP Tapes
  13. Jason Scott: Shareware Calvacade
  14. A Cloud of Opinion
  15. Trailer for the Two Hands Project Documentary
  16. GET FAILURE
  17. FaceLift (A Single Image)
  18. The Next Documentary
  19. The Sound of Pirate Radio
  20. Archive Team Talk Post-Mortem
  21. The Floodwaters Rise
  22. Internet Archive: A Cray Mystery, and a Hackerspaces Book
  23. Archive Team: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack
  24. After the Flood
  25. Laughing by Telegraph
  26. The Strangest Music Videos
  27. With Friends Like These: Archive Team Saves Friendster
  28. A Human Moment in Spam (Update: Nope, Still Machine)
  29. The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel
  30. Scanning a WHAT
  31. DEFCON 19
  32. The Twitters
  33. Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late
  34. To There and Back Again – And More Stuff!
  35. The Metadata Mania
  36. Available for Speaking Engagements
  37. Experiment Successful! Two More GET LAMP Interviews
  38. The First GET LAMP Interview Experiment
  39. The Hardcore Computist Collection
  40. Q&A: The Long Term Prospects
  41. All Hands on the Two Hands Project
  42. A Reader Service
  43. An Audio Message to Salon.Com
  44. Archive Team! With Friends Like These…
  45. FaceFacts
  46. The Case for Manuals
  47. Jason at Internet Archive Party, June 5
  48. Blotstation
  49. Who Designed Mr. Do?
  50. The Geocities Torrent: Patched and Posted
  51. The MUD Archives: It’s About Goddamned Time
  52. The Splendiferous Story of Archive Team
  53. This is Fairly Big News
  54. GET LAMP San Francisco Showing Tonight
  55. Archive Team Yahoo Video Final Push (and a rousing speech)
  56. A Valentine from Archive Team
  57. Since You’ve Been Gone
  58. Has Never Filmed, Will Never Film, Might Film
  59. The Review Fascination
  60. A Hands On-Project
  61. The Next Documentary
  62. All I’m Saying
  63. Destroying the History to Save It
  64. Tim
  65. Where is Dor Sageth?
  66. The BBS Documentary Reborn
  67. The RSS Problem
  68. Information Cube Packing

2010 55

  1. Geocities Torrent Update
  2. A Pair of Shoes
  3. Yahoo!locaust
  4. Be a Hero to 79 Wayward Cubes (Update: A Hero Arrives)
  5. RSS Issues
  6. The Penalty Box
  7. A Little Less Conversation, a Little More CDs
  8. The Ninety Dollar Shareware CD-ROM
  9. BBS Documentary: Gone (And Back Again)
  10. I Sure Wish You Got It
  11. Mom and Pop
  12. How Facebook Export Currently Works
  13. CD.TEXTFILES.COM Needs Mirrors
  14. Your Roger Corman Future
  15. Flyer Archives
  16. Chicks
  17. A Torrent of Attention
  18. Goodbye to VK7AX BBS
  19. Historian!!
  20. A Softwear Archive
  21. Archiveteam! The Geocities Torrent
  22. You’re Stealing it Wrong
  23. Still Never Shutting Up
  24. A Return to the Weblog with a 40th Birthday
  25. A Lamp, Gotten
  26. Hello Friends
  27. PLATO’s Retreat
  28. BBS Documentary IMDB Entry Improved
  29. Information Cube Status
  30. Buffing up the BBS Documentary IMDB Entry
  31. DistriWiki: A Proposal
  32. Shorn
  33. People Magazine
  34. Computer Beach Party … PART TWO
  35. Computer Beach Party … PART ONE
  36. ROFLCON: Fidonet and Tom Jennings
  37. ROFLcon USENET Panel
  38. The Process
  39. Blockparty 4 Success
  40. Library of Tweets
  41. Digital: A Love Story
  42. A Double Demoparty Year
  43. In the Blackout
  44. BBS Documentaries Running Out
  45. Vector Tanks Extreme Trailer
  46. Review of the FC5025 5.25″ Floppy to USB Adapter
  47. 5.25″ May Be Alive
  48. So I Made a Movie
  49. Back in Service
  50. Comments are Working Again
  51. The Unexpected Smell Dimension
  52. All Hail the Cube
  53. GET LAMP Artwork
  54. Head Down
  55. Sideline

2009 138

  1. Five Years of Great Failure
  2. Metafuckers
  3. Where The Hell Is Jason
  4. WizzyWIG Volume 3 is Coming: Volume 1 and 2 for Free
  5. Pistol Pete
  6. GET LAMP Pre-Orders Now Open
  7. Speaking at Shmoocon 2010: ARCHIVE TEAM!
  8. Solving the Town Problem
  9. 3 Million Files on CD.TEXTFILES.COM
  10. Unpublished Article on Geocities
  11. ARC/ZIP Perspective by Dean W. Cooper
  12. The Coming Information Utility, Now Gone and Everywhere
  13. Kickstartup
  14. The TEXTFILES.COM Information Cube 1.0
  15. Scottathon II
  16. That Awesome Time I Was Sued for Two Billion Dollars
  17. Netscape Now!
  18. Archive Team: Pssst, Want Some MIDI?
  19. Three Notebooks
  20. A Short History of Spelling Things R0ng
  21. ASK THE GUY MIRRORING GEOCITIES
  22. The Last Artgroup
  23. Life in the Miasma of Fundraising
  24. Scottathon!
  25. Geocities Saved!
  26. Geocities RIP
  27. Statement on Sockington Selling Out
  28. The Sabbatical Fund Continues
  29. GeoStupid
  30. Please Help Me Fund a Sabbatical
  31. IBM Binders
  32. The Atomic Level of Porn
  33. Outlook is Cloudy
  34. Wait, How Many Pounds?
  35. Hey There, Jack!
  36. Scanning Infocom: Done Scanning
  37. Archive Team: Under Construction
  38. Final Notice from Geocities
  39. Oh Boy, The Cloud
  40. A Most Delightful Culture Clash
  41. Cog, or the Resume
  42. Archive Team, Round It Up! The Geocities Showdown
  43. Speaking: Arse Elektronika
  44. What TV is Like
  45. Back from Toronto
  46. A Simple Survey
  47. Reformatting The Lamp
  48. Blu-Ray Still Blows
  49. Destruction Orders, For Example
  50. The Forgotten Chain
  51. Reboot
  52. Infocom Advertising
  53. Infocom Scanned
  54. Cutting Out Friends
  55. SXSW 2010 Panel Proposals
  56. A Collection Loses Energy
  57. Scanning Even More Infocom
  58. Why We Correct
  59. Game Over (A Moment of Silence)
  60. A Very Successful DENCON
  61. In Which You Make Good With the Cash
  62. In Which I Straight Up Hit You For Cash
  63. Disruptive History
  64. A Sketch of Defcon Attendance
  65. Kansasfest 2009
  66. 4Chan: Sage Not Bump (For Now)
  67. DENCON
  68. Bump Not Sage: Saving 4Chan
  69. Back and Forth
  70. The TEXTFILES.COM Intern
  71. Further Collection Additions
  72. ConfCon 2009
  73. Goodbye, Paul Panks
  74. TEXTFILES.COM Call for Interns
  75. In Which The Collection Is Assessed
  76. That Time I Gave Computers Away
  77. The Collection
  78. Geocities Saved! (Sort of)
  79. AAlib in Flash
  80. The Hiatus
  81. Some Kind of Sixteen
  82. A Buffet of Backwards Looking
  83. Long Gone
  84. The 3D Lemmings Companion
  85. Paper and Geocities Update
  86. Halo Renderings
  87. Bring on the Pain #6: Netflix
  88. The Handheld 21st Century
  89. Transparent Paper: PAPER.TEXTFILES.COM
  90. A DAK Catalog Showdown?
  91. Geocities: Why Hello, Everybody
  92. Sniper Spree
  93. Geocities: Lessons So Far
  94. Geocities
  95. Notacon 6 and Blockparty 3
  96. The Delight of Fuzzy Memory
  97. The Presentation Presentation
  98. Super Mario Presentation 64
  99. XORcon and Chiptunes
  100. Brick and Morte
  101. Results of Commo-Doc Bundle Experiment
  102. Health Update
  103. Opinion Spectrum Collapse Disorder
  104. The Continuing Adventure of Archive Team
  105. Ah, Joe Clark.
  106. Infringement From The Future, Legal Dept.
  107. Soviet Unterzoegersdorf Sector 2
  108. Racing the Beam
  109. Blockparty! April 16-19th. Be there.
  110. Dancing on Magnolia’s Grave: Fuck the Cloud II
  111. The Thick of It: Computer Shopper
  112. Interlude
  113. Goodbye to the Bandwidth Dragon
  114. The Moot I Know
  115. The Millbrook Round Table
  116. A Valentine’s Day Memory
  117. Bring On The Pain #5: CREATESPACE
  118. The Trough of No Value
  119. What Is BBS?
  120. A Stack of Paper
  121. Conspiracy Rocks!
  122. Green, With Envy
  123. Conversation With a Dead Guy
  124. Rolling On The Floor Meowing
  125. On Comments and Commentary
  126. The Melee
  127. And Now, a Musical Interlude
  128. FUCK THE CLOUD
  129. Google Catalogs, RIP
  130. Haloooooooooooooooooooooooooh.
  131. Rob Swindell and the Synchronet Museum
  132. STAND BACK, WE’RE ARCHIVISTS
  133. Tennis Court Phone
  134. Team Archive is GO
  135. Datapocalypso!
  136. The Little Black Diamond
  137. WELL HI THERE
  138. PinPin, Or The Fun Injection

2008 221

  1. Halfway
  2. Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse
  3. Undistilled Amazing
  4. Circle of Jerks
  5. Bring On the Pain #4: Undercover
  6. The Holiday Rush
  7. Never Shutting Up
  8. SOCKINGTON Tidings at ROFLCON-NY
  9. RADIOSHACKCATALOGS.COM
  10. Why Hello There: An ASCII Reboot
  11. Recording the Beatles
  12. Mr. Influence
  13. Awesome! Unsurpassed!
  14. In Which I Ask You Nice People a Question
  15. A Comic Moment
  16. A Warning of Upheaval
  17. The Wall
  18. Information Superhighway
  19. Wizzywig #2: Hacker
  20. Bring on the Pain #3: OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE
  21. Inventory
  22. Progression Via Regression
  23. Bring on the Pain #2: The DRM in Conundrum
  24. Bring on the Pain #1: Vuze
  25. The End of the Good Times (Part 2)
  26. The End of the Good Times (Part 1)
  27. Bring on the Pain
  28. TinyTIM Returns
  29. The Art of Presentation: Bass O Matic and the Crystal Skull
  30. Putting Quarters Where My Mouth Is: Chasing Ghosts (Updated)
  31. Commodork Comes Home
  32. When the BBS Broke Free
  33. But It Is Obvious
  34. CD.TEXTFILES.COM gets subdirectories
  35. Ten Years of Textfiles
  36. Computer Camp Love
  37. Pretty and Pathetic
  38. Or Reuse the Tapes (Backing Up’s Dirty Secret)
  39. A Life in by 3 and out by 11
  40. A Few Thoughts on Conducting Interviews
  41. Through a new lens
  42. One Less Jason Scott
  43. Another Blu-Ray Strike
  44. The Age of Reason: An Apple II BBS
  45. Sockington’s Wild Success
  46. GET LAMP Milestone Reached
  47. The Amnesia Manuscript
  48. An End to my Broadcast Day
  49. Earning their $9.95 a Month
  50. Amnesia, Forgotten and Remembered
  51. I’ll be Over Here, Thanks
  52. Wallflowers Video Now Available
  53. The Pain of the Field Major
  54. An Interesting Mentor Linkage
  55. Steve Meretzky Speaking at MIT
  56. Say What Again
  57. Not a Bummer!
  58. Bummer!
  59. The IIe Underground
  60. Jason in Europe
  61. Frontalot Video Deux
  62. Chasing Ghosts and a Game Day
  63. The FBI File of Yipl/TAP
  64. A Story of RBBS (and PC-Talk, and Andrew Fluegelman)
  65. Where am I
  66. Your News in Full-Color GIF
  67. CD.TEXTFILES.COM returns
  68. The Worldgroup Underground
  69. A Karateka Korrection
  70. The Joker in the Line
  71. They are Not Hard
  72. HOPE Reigns Supreme
  73. Throw a Bathtub Through a Window
  74. The Reviews are In, a Tad Late
  75. My Speaking Final Boss
  76. A Checkered Past
  77. Noticing Burnt Computers
  78. Vroom Meow
  79. Poof You’re Gone
  80. Film Guy
  81. Errors of Inclusion
  82. Nobody Knows You
  83. The Art of Noise
  84. Hacker Photos, 1990-1993
  85. The Boutique Website
  86. Cascade
  87. Wherein June 19th Gives You Tidings
  88. Midphase’s New Goat Herders
  89. OH HEY HOW YA DOING
  90. Temporarily Deleted
  91. Talk Corrections, Weekend Connections
  92. Things My Users Have Taught Me
  93. Yes.
  94. On the Onset of Another Video
  95. Engagements
  96. Escaping The Escapist
  97. How It Goes
  98. Last Health Update for a While
  99. Before the LOL Now Available
  100. The Divided States
  101. The Power Spot
  102. Dramatic Pause
  103. Death Packet!
  104. The Penalty Box
  105. Deep in Editing
  106. The Fun Drive? Oh, Wait
  107. Blockparty: The Competitions and Awards
  108. The Mask of the Night
  109. The Wikipedia Database Secret
  110. A Payphone Map, 25 years on
  111. That Endless Knocking
  112. Huzzah and Thanks
  113. Before the LOL: Rocketboom Mix
  114. Flickr-y Flood
  115. ROFLcon (After)
  116. Poptastic Quiz
  117. Hacker Photos: The Unexpected Return
  118. Your Tour Guide Future
  119. The Secret Cost of the Database
  120. 99%
  121. Silly Jim Leonard
  122. Adventurespiele
  123. The Quirks of Penguicon
  124. Digger
  125. Quick Interview: Drive and Despair
  126. Goatse Metrics
  127. Uther – Net
  128. More-iarty
  129. Memories of a Scoundrel
  130. The Decade Cometh
  131. Napster: Did You Forget?
  132. CPU Not Required: Making Demos with FPGAs
  133. Sorry, Fired.
  134. Blockparty: 4k Music
  135. Suicidal
  136. A Demo Event of Serious Consequence
  137. Twilight of the Area Code Master
  138. FORUM REFEREE!
  139. Not Free Enough
  140. A Quick Recommendation: Dad Hacker
  141. April Tool’s Day
  142. April Fool
  143. Blockparty Preparations
  144. Luna City
  145. Scanning Infocom
  146. DVDs for the Blind
  147. Help Me Find Invisiclues 2000
  148. Ding Dong, ANSI Calling
  149. Trixter’s Monotonous Triumph
  150. The Three Levels
  151. The Tyranny of the Ratio
  152. Awesome Trailer Review!!
  153. GET LAMP Trailer Out
  154. Confessions of a Staff Captain
  155. Blockparty: Your Source for Cocaine
  156. Happy 18th, TinyTIM
  157. Why Hello There
  158. My New Little Youtube Buddy, Format 18
  159. Bow Down Before the Files You Serve
  160. Don’t Interrupt, Jerk
  161. Penguincon
  162. The Name of The Game
  163. Possessed
  164. Uninterrupted Power Play
  165. 1000 Little Buddies
  166. Stories
  167. Webtrap
  168. What Are These Feelings?
  169. Sleep Lab 2020
  170. Hard-Won Information on Editing with USB
  171. The Character Assassination of Jason Scott by the Coward Ed Cunningham
  172. Truth in Numbers
  173. I Love You, Cinematic Snow
  174. The Speech of Forever: Talk Notes
  175. Jumper and Childhood
  176. Subtitle Your Fucking Movie
  177. My Five Movies
  178. On the Occasion of 100 Simultaneous Connections
  179. The Unfeelies
  180. Unnecessary
  181. The Feelies
  182. ROFLcon
  183. The Modem Man Rap
  184. Health and Exercise Update
  185. Shmoocon Success
  186. Face to Face with Luna City
  187. A Carrier Detected for Three Decades
  188. Danger Safely Outside the Danger Zone
  189. The Power of Reddit
  190. Caretaking Fun
  191. Nice Try, Archiver-Hater
  192. The King of Wrong: Final Words (Many of Them)
  193. Called on Account of Pain
  194. The King of Wrong: Short Version
  195. Linkages
  196. The Sad Compulsion of the Right Thing
  197. The Adventure Library
  198. The King of Wrong Runs Long
  199. The King of Wrong
  200. GET GIRL
  201. Maximalized Pandas
  202. The Syslink Manual
  203. Conspiracy’s a Special Word
  204. The Strip-Miners
  205. Shmoocon
  206. Geek Entertainment
  207. Zero Stars
  208. Blockparty Speakers List Finalized
  209. The Most Popular Thing Ever
  210. On the Outset of Editing
  211. My Best Bosses: Pat
  212. My Best Bosses: Brian
  213. Post-California
  214. My Delicious Slaves
  215. ANSI, ASCII, Text
  216. The Long Hosting Goodbye
  217. Invitation to Blockparty 2008
  218. Review: Wizzywig
  219. Personals: Wikipedia Critic Seeks Like-Minded Author for Laughs, Adventure
  220. ASCII Weblog 2008
  221. ….and we’re done.

2007 270

  1. 5000 BBS Changes
  2. Bizzaro Genius Baby
  3. My Delicious Grape Juice
  4. Used Clothes are Used
  5. When Being Online Was New
  6. Overextended
  7. The Tool
  8. The ANSI Gallery
  9. Chinese is the New Computer
  10. Peter Hirschberg’s Triumphant Dream
  11. Why the BBS Documentary Footage is Taking So Long
  12. That Old Frog
  13. Sketch the Cow
  14. The Melee
  15. The Cave of Dreams
  16. Greetings From Time Warp
  17. The Shadow Narrative
  18. The Magic of Recommendation
  19. Zero Punctuation
  20. That time in the Haystack
  21. The RV
  22. The Goog
  23. On Objects and People
  24. Software’s Marked Failure
  25. Software’s Quiet Success
  26. Lying McLierson and the Lying Liefaces
  27. A Substantial Volume of Man Meat
  28. Vintage Computer Festival X
  29. 420
  30. Slow Time
  31. The Guitar on a Stand
  32. Non-Alcoholic
  33. Giving you the finger, Healed
  34. Grr Guy
  35. The Last Mile (Twice Over)
  36. Movieland and Machine475
  37. Flash
  38. Some Random, Unsorted Thoughts on Sorting
  39. Gout
  40. Fred Fish’s Quiet Goodbye
  41. The Render Junkie
  42. Not a Frame
  43. To PhreakNIC
  44. Love in the Time of Two Terabytes
  45. Thank you so much, Jimmy
  46. Aperture
  47. A Plea for Compuserve Forums
  48. The Eventual Big Day
  49. Last Century
  50. Catch-Up
  51. Superchickens
  52. The Bridge
  53. On the Other Side
  54. HV20 Test Footage
  55. Argh
  56. Crossing Lines
  57. IFcomp
  58. Andgor
  59. On the Occasion of Using the Xbox 360
  60. Why Tech Documentaries are Impossible
  61. Instant
  62. Going Going Gone
  63. A Great Gift
  64. Frontaclues(tm)
  65. Mail Call
  66. Frontalot Video Released (Completely)
  67. WEBLOG CALLED ON ACCOUNT OF BIRTHDAY
  68. GET LAME
  69. My Approaching Delightful CD Crisis
  70. Meretzky 1994
  71. Toy
  72. Health Update
  73. The Last Starfighter Musical Returns!
  74. You are Likely to be Bootlegged
  75. The Edge of Forever
  76. Greetings Internet Warrior: To Mirror the Past
  77. Greetings Internet Warrior: Blur in Clear Sight
  78. Greetings, Internet Warrior: The Tangential Sweep
  79. Greetings, Internet Warrior: The One-Word Strike
  80. Greetings, Internet Warrior: Infantalize your Quarry
  81. The Sad Tale of the 5.25″ Disk Drive
  82. Thanks, Web 2.0
  83. Chicks
  84. Presentation: Shmoocon, One Laptop Per Child
  85. The Delightful Overload
  86. GET LAMP Teaser Trailer – And YouTube
  87. Timing
  88. A Future Possible Project: How to Present
  89. STOP YOU’RE WRECKING IT
  90. Joybubbles
  91. Caught Up
  92. Undeveloped
  93. Standage
  94. TEL
  95. DEFCON 15
  96. YIPL and TAP
  97. Arcade Manuals
  98. You Are Not Your Thing
  99. Frontalot Video Released (Sort of)
  100. Koalas Are Little Bitches
  101. Major BBS: The Warezing and the Winning
  102. The Undone CONPHOTOS
  103. Goodbye, Rat
  104. The Delight of Decades
  105. “We Can’t Have Nice Things.”
  106. Kaminsky: The Rematch!
  107. Fails Under Load
  108. Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 3.0
  109. Good PDF, Bad PDF
  110. Outdated
  111. Blockparty Dates!
  112. 120,000 MODs
  113. Nailing It
  114. HVX-200, A Year and a Half In
  115. Referrers, or, The Ever-Present Jason
  116. Hirschberg, Again
  117. Kaminsky!!!
  118. When They Started Hating You
  119. Not Interested
  120. Slow Down
  121. 3279 Memories
  122. Informed
  123. Three Speaking Engagements
  124. Ring Detect
  125. Hacking Cracking
  126. Online Cancer
  127. Your Home Computer Alarm Clock
  128. Productive
  129. Flickr
  130. Good Copy Bad Copy
  131. Halfway
  132. That Really Cool Phone
  133. Detox
  134. Where Did You Get These?
  135. Vintage Festival East 4.0
  136. Mark Weiser and Calm Technology
  137. Cast and Photos
  138. Found
  139. Chowderbox
  140. Cleverness Cash
  141. The Big Push: Six Months In
  142. need your guidence sir
  143. The Wiz
  144. Get Out Of My House
  145. Pinball Perfection
  146. Goodbye, Stuff
  147. Electric Slide Lawsuit: Jason Schultz Responds
  148. How the EFF Dropped the Ball on the Electric Slide Lawsuit
  149. Stop Me Before I Do The Electric Slide
  150. Podwaste
  151. Zoo
  152. Brickapedia
  153. And Then It All Goes Crazy
  154. Goatse II: The Widening
  155. Microthingies
  156. Catching Flack for the Philez
  157. Wikipedia Templates
  158. Leet
  159. Locks
  160. Seedy Textfiles
  161. Where Have All the Philes Gone?
  162. Five Days a Week
  163. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
  164. A Little More Front, for Context
  165. Pitch Dark Post Mortem
  166. Happy Drive
  167. Blockparty
  168. Bittorrent: Solitary. Fashionable. Ethereal.
  169. NAC1M1
  170. Alex
  171. Outage
  172. L0pht, Cracked
  173. Diskmags
  174. New and Old
  175. Super Paper Mario
  176. The Big Push Continues
  177. Cold Turkey
  178. The Scent of a Ware
  179. First!
  180. Demoscene Week: Link Buffet (Conclusion)
  181. Demoscene Week: Blockparty
  182. Demoscene Week: The Countries
  183. Demoscene Week: The Drama
  184. Demoscene Week: Going in Style
  185. Demoscene Week: Changing Everything
  186. Hark! Kibble!
  187. Amateur Decade
  188. Warning! Amateur Night!
  189. Notacon and Blockparty: Deadlines Approach
  190. Fruit Flavored Power
  191. The Little Trojan Horse
  192. INCREDIBLE NEW FEATURE
  193. Snake Oil
  194. That Time that I Cared
  195. Landscapes by the Country Gardener
  196. It Is Pitch Dark
  197. Homecoming
  198. A Touch of the Shmoo
  199. Shmoocon: Hackers on a Plane
  200. Headrush: My First Film
  201. Shmoocon
  202. Music Video
  203. Creative Common Sense
  204. The Mess Phase
  205. Mindcandy 2: Buy the Goddamned Thing
  206. 40
  207. Tracing DNA
  208. The Tadros Collection
  209. Blockparty UPDATE: Blockparty Invitation!
  210. Goodbye Dutchess
  211. Bad Ingredients
  212. The Big Theater
  213. Thinking Out of the Box
  214. TEXTFILES.COM 2.0
  215. Life in the Time of No Box
  216. The Terrible Secret of Spam
  217. Another Essjay Essay
  218. Julien Pirates His Own Documentary
  219. Wikipedia: J.S. on Essjay
  220. One-Two Quote Punch
  221. World Expert
  222. Casting the Woz
  223. Timeout
  224. You Are Fuel
  225. Smarties and Dumbells
  226. The Beautiful Boot
  227. BLOCKPARTY UPDATE: Speakers List is Finalized
  228. The February Goat Update
  229. Generation TEXT
  230. Getting Jason to Endorse You: An Example
  231. Peter Hirschberg
  232. A Breath of Air (Housecleaning)
  233. Computer Camp
  234. You’ve Ruined Everything
  235. Sorry about Boston
  236. Small World
  237. Arcade Documentaries
  238. Zelchenko for Alderman
  239. From the Mailbag: Archiving Yourself
  240. Not Finishing your Film in 5 Easy Steps
  241. Conceptporn
  242. Wozipedia II+
  243. Wozipedia
  244. The Calibration
  245. The Wikireporter
  246. Lyons Pinball
  247. The Very, Very, Very Long Tail
  248. Fear
  249. Rock on Out to the Blockparty
  250. Quag7’s State of the BBS, 2006/2007
  251. A Sysop, Forever
  252. Six Days a Week
  253. 169
  254. TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball
  255. Free for the Taking
  256. That Guy
  257. Five Better Heroes
  258. Fillet
  259. The Big Push
  260. Hacker
  261. Off the Chart
  262. Note to 247 Realmedia
  263. Frontalot
  264. Driving Yourself Crazy the Visual Way
  265. Getting Lamp
  266. iMaid
  267. The Ass-termath
  268. Freedom, Justice and a Disturbingly Gaping Ass
  269. Announcing: Blockparty!
  270. Five Wikipedia Predictions: A New Year

2006 83

  1. Housecleaning
  2. Printout
  3. Todd “Ship” Shapiro
  4. The Guide
  5. The Phone Stories: THE OFFICE
  6. Mythapedia
  7. The Phone Stories: VOICEMAIL
  8. The Big Picture
  9. The Phone Stories: SECURITY
  10. Return to History, A Little of Now
  11. Flowing Amber
  12. Little Plastic Dreams
  13. Chip or London
  14. Artscene!
  15. Leave a Message
  16. Review: Commodork
  17. The Little Theatre
  18. Artifacts
  19. “Digital Influence Strategist”
  20. And the Winner Is…. Death!
  21. Cry
  22. A Very Old Battle
  23. Primary Sources
  24. Keep on Keeping On
  25. Looking Ahead: DVD Formats
  26. Another Satisfied Customer
  27. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Wikipedia Criticism for Dummies in a Nutshell in 24 Hours or 21 Days Unleashed
  28. The Pinball Hall of Fame Needs You
  29. Julien! Julien! Julien!
  30. See You in Portland
  31. The Time Crunch
  32. Contempt
  33. Awesome
  34. My Motivation Returns
  35. Hey, Thanks
  36. Interview by Leahpeah
  37. Limits
  38. Pundit and Production
  39. Seriously, Fuck Katie Hafner
  40. Goodbye, Dan
  41. Around the Trashcan Fire
  42. Coin, Operated Book, Sitting on the Shelf
  43. Spinning Plates
  44. The Best and the Interesting
  45. Arcade: The Documentary
  46. Selling the Scene, Selling the Box
  47. So Long, Spaz
  48. Another One Missed
  49. A Quick Endorsement
  50. Ant Farm
  51. Bucks
  52. Podcasting
  53. The Stacks
  54. The Great Success of the Great Failure
  55. Bummer!
  56. Motivation
  57. Interview on Whitedust
  58. The Scanination and the Burnination
  59. The Passion of the Scanner
  60. A Few Handfuls of Flung Mud
  61. A History of Hacker Conferences
  62. First Weekend
  63. Gorp: A Little More
  64. Gorp
  65. Paperperson
  66. Five Wikipedia Predictions (A Valentine)
  67. Lifecycles and Audiences
  68. A Little Bit of Nostalgia
  69. ONE. MILLION. DOLLARS!
  70. Speaking in Princeton
  71. Adventurers’ Club (Last Followup)
  72. “I can’t imagine they would enjoy such a conversation.”
  73. Dit dit dit hey wait
  74. Hardcoded
  75. Loose Film Ends
  76. Pud
  77. The Best BBS Movie Ever Made
  78. Hacking the Scantron
  79. Whoop de Shmoo
  80. The Adventurers’ Club (A Followup)
  81. Public Speaking
  82. Midphase Blows Goats
  83. Exhibits and Phantom Access

2005 113

  1. “If the guy who put out the Saw DVD, for instance, ever even so much as just looked at the packaging to this thing his eyes would catch fire and burst into lacrymotic slag.”
  2. Mentors
  3. The Owl Ball
  4. Seven Bits No Waiting
  5. Sudden View
  6. Notapedia
  7. One. Million. Files.
  8. The Adventurers’ Club
  9. The Founder of the BBS
  10. The Scratched Lens and Broken Fingers Layer
  11. A Little More Footage
  12. Short, Sweet, and Clear
  13. The Last Starfighter: The Musical: The Sountrack
  14. Blessed Is the Followthrough
  15. Vintage Computers, Vintage Film
  16. One From the Mailbag
  17. Creative Commons and The Money
  18. Vintage Computer Festival
  19. There is a Shiny Brass Lamp nearby
  20. Hungry
  21. Lord British in Space: A pledge
  22. The Future of Pinball
  23. Redlighted
  24. We’re Not Selling Out! We’re Buying In!
  25. Wake Me Up
  26. Fan Mail of the Month
  27. DRUGWARS
  28. A Fall in Price
  29. A Story in Images
  30. Rumspringa!
  31. And Now a Word From a Marketer
  32. Giving Back
  33. A Thousand Seven Hundred RTTY Memories
  34. Echoes of Life
  35. Goodbye, Milky
  36. Kick My Ass
  37. The Documentary was SO worth making.
  38. Rumspringa
  39. The BBS Documentary Interview Collection
  40. Statement of Work
  41. I, For One, Welcome Our New Pictograph Subtitles
  42. Time Served
  43. Bovine Ignition Systems
  44. The Right Audience (and the Sequel)
  45. A Bittersweet but Happy Ending
  46. IMDB Assault Begins
  47. A Silent Key
  48. Buy Buy Buy
  49. Script: A Lot of Little Things
  50. TeeVee
  51. All The Podcasts: It Continues
  52. The Dedications
  53. Getting a Hold of Reviews
  54. Why Is Today Not Like What It Was Like?
  55. So You Warezed The Documentary
  56. I’m Shocked! Truly SHOCKED!
  57. What a Week
  58. Dream Becomes Reality: A Mail Call
  59. Letter, Response
  60. Egad
  61. Why the BBS Documentary is Creative Commons
  62. The Machine is Humming
  63. Now That’s My Idea of a Party
  64. Other Lands
  65. Out There
  66. I’m in the IMDB
  67. Another Pile Leaves
  68. BBS Documentary Ships
  69. It begins
  70. Housecleanings
  71. One-Day Delay! Of Course!
  72. Discs 2 and 3 now in their cases
  73. Stacking the Odds
  74. Packages and Slipcovers Arrive, DVDs Soon
  75. The Big Time
  76. Text goes In, Text goes out
  77. Days of Delay
  78. Packing Boxes Arrive, DVDs in about a Week
  79. Swastikipedia
  80. A Quiet Transaction
  81. Last Check Disc Approved
  82. Podcast Work
  83. Delays and Ankles
  84. Quite the Offer
  85. All The Podcasts: An Update
  86. Documentary: Disc Art
  87. Documentary: Disc #3 is working, Disc #1 Resubmitted
  88. My Most Precious Collection
  89. Disc #1 Re-Done, going to Printer
  90. Documentary: Disc #1 fails, Must be Resubmitted
  91. A Bright Day of Shovelware
  92. I Paid, You Get It for Free
  93. Some Other Documentary Meta-Things
  94. Documentary Update: #2 Done
  95. Selling History
  96. Glass Masters
  97. The Bat of Good Tidings
  98. An Interview with Krakowicz
  99. An Unusual Feature
  100. The Wrapups
  101. Home Stretch
  102. All of the Podcasts
  103. BBS Documentary Update: The Dog That Roared
  104. Fahrenheit 300/1200/2400
  105. BBS Documentary Update
  106. BBS Documentary Update
  107. Help Me Bring Back TORRENTS.TEXTFILES.COM
  108. Three More BBS Documentary Updates
  109. The BBS History Foundation
  110. The Eye of Doom: Documentary News
  111. BBS Documentary Update
  112. A Criticism of Wikipedia Now Exceeding a Scream
  113. So, where is this Documentary?

2004 36

  1. Merry Christmas – The Last Starfighter
  2. BBS Documentary News (December 12, 2004)
  3. The Ugly: Bandwidth and Politics
  4. Everything Old is Scanned Again
  5. The Great Failure of Wikipedia
  6. “Use of our client’s trademark to identify enema equipment in erotic fiction is likely to cause confusion”
  7. Review of “The Last Starfighter: The Musical”
  8. BBS Documentary Now In Pre-Sale
  9. The World’s Most Incredible Machine
  10. A Minor but Important Thing
  11. The BBS Documentary DVD and Premiere
  12. AN APPRECIATION OF COUNT LAZLO HOLLIFELD NIBBLE /\/oo\/\
  13. Documentary Triptychs
  14. How It’s Done: Digitizing and Culling
  15. The Disks of Mister Keegan
  16. BBS Documentary Update
  17. Unusual Documentary Wrap-Up
  18. HOPE Conference Speech: “Preserving Digital History”
  19. I’m Not Moving Fast Enough
  20. An Awful Lot to Talk About
  21. BBS Documentary: June 17, 2004
  22. A Call for some Hard Core Mirrors
  23. Five Documentary Manias
  24. BBS Documentary Optimizes, Gets Reviews Already
  25. Buy Textfiles.com For A Few Bucks
  26. Goodbye, John Aleshe
  27. No Matter the Intention
  28. Good of History? Stupid and BORING.
  29. The Haters, The Haters
  30. BBS Documentary Update
  31. A Prayer for the Part-Time BBS
  32. All Rights Reserved without Prejudice
  33. A Place Within The Company
  34. A Spate of Crowd Surfing
  35. An Endless Conversation
  36. The 21st Century Sysop

2003 26

  1. Archiving Into the Infinite
  2. North, North, Get Lamp, West, Jump
  3. Candy Colored Promises
  4. No Calls, Please
  5. Room With an Interview
  6. Why Is There No Advertising on Textfiles.com?
  7. An Increasingly Misnamed But Still Interesting Site
  8. README.TXT
  9. Hey, I Was Here First
  10. The Parties I Missed and the Parties I Didn’t
  11. All Hail Gunderloy
  12. The Place Has Really Gone Downhill
  13. Five Things Worth Looking Into
  14. Have you met Curt Vendel today?
  15. The Art of the Crack
  16. Bloggers, Meet the Baggies
  17. Ever Heard of Henk Nieborg?
  18. Save Everything
  19. A Prayer for Psygnosis
  20. Tom Jennings, Renaissance Man
  21. The History is Everywhere and Nowhere
  22. Documentary of an Addiction
  23. Every BBS Textfile Ever
  24. Does the BBS Guy Run a BBS?
  25. The Race To Digitize Everything Ever
  26. Through a Carrier, Darkly