Jason Scott

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2026-08-23 21:39:48 CEST

There's a way for me to notice "hey, a lot of stuff just got uploaded to the Archive, in a place that doesn't usually see a lot of stuff uploaded". Sometimes it's spammers, sometimes it's other things.
This time, it turns out someone has been mirroring the entire open academic output of the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI). They're at nearly 10,000 papers and counting!
https://archive.org/details/tari-archive

2026-08-20 06:36:48 CEST

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let's go with "definitely not a TERF"

2026-08-20 04:43:13 CEST

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ok, delete THAT one

2026-08-05 16:16:10 CEST

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it is unfortunate, isn't it
Aaaaaaaaaaa

2026-08-05 05:31:44 CEST

On one hand, the AI skeptic screaming is tiring.
On the other hand, I am glad we are having at least one overarching top-down technology getting an absolute blanket party out of the gate and either proving itself or it will be a punchline or refined to within a millimeter of perfect.
A lot of what we use in technology would be so much better if it had had to run this gauntlet.

2026-08-05 05:14:16 CEST

https://digipres-club.s3.bhs.io.cloud.ovh.net/media_attachments/files/117/040/719/820/495/940/original/fc78f4ccd634cce5.jpg

2026-05-24 03:37:55 CEST

Oh, you got your emulator running with a few games to play? That's cute.
Andrew Warkentin has made a VM that has over 1,700 operating systems on it that you select from a launcher. One Thousand Seven Hundred Plus.
Aww, your emulator takes a couple gigs. His takes 174 of them.
https://www.virtualosmuseum.org
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2026-02-22 22:24:41 CET

Spammers run rampant against the archive, trying their best to post advertisements and tricky links outward to sketchy sites. They've been doing it for years, and there's mitigations I and others work to keep it contained and miminal. Recently, someone is trying to break out of containment and is posting literally thousands of items a day.

2025-11-07 03:10:23 CET

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It's not about rhyme or reason or being careful - there are doubles, the contents may be different than the labels, and of course many scanned labels seem weird or dirty - likely they've seen the floors of offices for years.
But they exist now. Someone can download them, curate them, find the value. I hope they have a joy doing it. For me - it's about moving on through the next few thousand.

2025-11-07 03:09:18 CET

Next on the digitization death march are 3.5" floppies. I've been sent thousands of them over the years. I'm going to just image and scan them and pack them for perm storage.
May I present the first 847.
https://archive.org/details/2025_01_NOOKS_AND_CRANNIES
Floppies read by Applesauce, and the front of the floppies scanned in a flatbed at 600dpi.
I won't be stopping until all my donated floppies are online.

2025-04-04 23:34:08 CEST

Two losses over the least bit of time:
Janis Kracht of FidoNet Zone 1, who ran Zone 1 for many years:
https://www.perkinsfh.com/obituary/Janis-Kracht
And Doug Rhea of BBSFiles.com:
https://www.batescoopersloanfuneralhome.com/obituary/douglas-rhea

2025-03-18 02:29:55 CET

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https://web.archive.org/web/19970407121018/http://wiretap.spies.com/

2025-02-04 19:25:58 CET

https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/113/947/020/995/978/172/original/7805a67f3789d49b.jpg

2025-02-01 05:05:49 CET

Artifacts and materials are not people, and datasets are not lives, but if you're in need of haven or hard drive for the works of transgender materials, you got a free consult, anonymous or otherwise, from me. DMs open.

2025-01-01 20:30:04 CET

2025 is the year of the 20th Anniversary of BBS: The Documentary. I'll be doing a round of updates, events and even a sale of some old copies I found while moving offices. Let's enjoy what some people say was my only good documentary!
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/113/754/754/497/256/653/original/1ed11ce30ff01142.png

2024-12-18 23:59:13 CET

Was sent this excellent video about a two year journey to brin g a Commodore 64 dial-up BBS back. English and German. Snobsoft lives!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEv5_tC-vVE

2024-12-13 02:53:18 CET

.....no.
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2024-11-24 17:53:54 CET

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UMATIC (also known as 3/4" tape) is a professional format from the 1970s and 1980s. The tapes often need to be baked to get them back to functional. I've been doing thousands of these tapes and it wears down the machinery, needing repair. But the results are striking.
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2024-11-24 17:50:28 CET

I just dropped $1,600 for a full servicing and repair for two UMATIC tape decks, money I don't really have to spend. I asked for people to help and some have, I just want to make the appeal more informative.
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/113/538/958/900/785/739/original/cbf4c34a14ac1e68.png

2024-11-22 21:26:26 CET

I'm paying to have two UMATIC decks restored to service standards, if anyone wants to throw some bucks at this (everything I digitize ends up at the Archive, always) my paypal is [email protected] and the venmo is @npub1qkf…jma5
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2024-11-13 02:41:42 CET

One of the hacking casualties, emulation in the browser, is BACK at Internet Archive. A quarter million programs run again. But let's enjoy the #1 title first.
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990
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2024-11-10 04:29:32 CET

Internet Archive Thoughts 2024-11-09
https://www.reddit.com/r/internetarchive/comments/1gnrfnj/internet_archive_thoughts_20241109/

2024-11-09 17:19:25 CET

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blocking people is like a spa treatment for my online life

2024-11-07 05:08:25 CET

https://give.archive.money/

2024-11-04 22:07:38 CET

If I can sadly skip the anniversary of the day that Internet Arcade slammed the Archive's bandwidth to death levels and crashed their servers, you can wait a few more days for the features to return.
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/113/426/724/014/434/944/original/5c4f5067ca2abd00.png

2024-10-15 03:08:51 CEST

Someone is selling a $60 DMR-ES10 with $130 shipping on Ebay and I need to know if Amazon can ship herpes to someone

2024-10-15 01:12:57 CEST

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/

2024-10-14 07:48:42 CEST

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stick around a while, guy, you are also one of my favorites

2024-10-14 07:20:42 CEST

Ward Christensen has died at 78. This guy was a giant, a humble one, and I'm proud to have known him.
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2024-10-13 07:28:09 CEST

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because 1. This is the backlog since the services were cut off from the network to do a security sweep and 2. There have been review spammers and I've been running custom scripts to deal with it while we fixed up solutions but I'm not able to do so currently.

2024-08-16 05:47:30 CEST

My face when I've got the UMATIC tape deck up and running again.
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2024-08-09 18:36:25 CEST

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Here was 10 days ago.
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/933/036/641/459/774/original/038de7278721b6e2.jpg

2024-08-09 17:52:10 CEST

For the first time in about 15 years, I have no storage. Everything is either in my new office or gone. This is a pretty notable day.
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/112/932/861/468/267/955/original/1ac5c7efb8ca9c03.jpg
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2024-08-04 03:00:30 CEST

The 86box emulator is mature enough that I hope someone steps in to consider making a WASM compile of it. If we can get that running, a whole host of Windows and other operating systems come to the Internet Archive's emulation system.
https://86box.net/2024/07/26/86box-v4-2.html