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For St. Louisans, March 14 is #314Day! ⚜️ ☎️ 🎉

In celebration, I'm sharing a tiny tech time capsule — a collection of textfiles related to St. Louis-area #BBS networks!

breakintochat.com/blog/2025/03

I gathered these 30 years ago when I was cosysop of "Something in the Attic BBS" and seeking to attract more users.

Brace yourself for all manner of capitalization! (PIllowNet, SPORKnet, StupidNET)

Ending "z"s!

And lots of exclamation marks!

#textfiles #bbsing #314 #stl #stlouis #retrocomputing

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Here's the thing I made that WordPress lost its shit over. It's a study guide for the Salesforce admin exam I made myself (with the help of wifey for the cover). I'd written up a little something about it, but to hell with that. I wanted to make flash cards and wanted ALL the info in one place, which Salesforce doesn't provide in a decent manner. So here it is. Any help editing or formatting, go nuts.

These are the 7 files I printed to make this bad boy: drive.proton.me/urls/V4EHCTZVX

Lifehacker: Use This App Instead of Excel to Directly Edit CSV Files. “ModernCSV, an indie app for Linux, Mac, and Windows computers, is the best tool I’ve come across for this purpose. If you work with CSV files frequency, or just need to edit one quickly, it’s worth checking out. This application is built specifically with CSV files in mind and makes working with them simple.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/13/lifehacker-use-this-app-instead-of-excel-to-directly-edit-csv-files/

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Saw something about using text files for notes instead of things like Word or Evernote or Notion. I don't use those apps, but I do end up putting things in Samsung Notes or Google Docs all the time, and those are ethereal. If I switch to a non-Samsung phone or ditch Google, they're gone.

I liked the idea of just plain text files in a local spot on my phone, I've always loved text files anyway. So I looked in the Play store, and sure enough, there's an app called txtpad+. I love it. Simple UI. You choose the location to save, and then make your files. Easy as hell.

Here it is on the Play store, it's free.
play.google.com/store/apps/det

🌗 TEXTFILES.COM 網站的風采
➤ ASCII字符所凝聚的藝術與歷史
textfiles.com/index.html
TEXTFILES.COM 是一個線上超過25年的網站,提供著重於20世紀80年代的文字檔案及相關文化的資料,深入探討ASCII所帶來的影響。這裡不僅僅是關於文字檔案,而是提供了作家與藝術家在ASCII碼的限制下創作的歷史,也提供了捌拾年代的文字檔案及現今相關文化的延續。若喜歡TEXTFILES.COM,可以透過社羣媒體分享並使用 #textfiles 標籤。此外,這個網站一直以來是沒有廣告或點選廣告,如果想要支持網站的維護成本,可以透過Paypal或Venmo進行捐款。
+ 這個網站真的是一個寶庫,提供了豐富的歷史資料和藝術作品,而且對於不同年代的文字檔案進行收集整理,讓人能深入瞭解文化的發展。
+ 好棒的資源,瞭解ASCII字符如何影響藝術和文化,真的很有啟發性。
#文字檔案 #ASCII #歷史 #藝術

www.textfiles.comT E X T F I L E S D O T C O M

@larsfrommars Here are more mostly free digital archives, some focusing on historical and ancient documents, and some on early digital age text documents. Some of the University archives may have some texts that are not free alongside their free collections. I have enjoyed reading from these and many other archives since the dawn of the Internet.

Christian Ethereal Classics Library
ccel.org/

The Avalon Project at Yale University
avalon.law.yale.edu/

Topos Texts
topostext.org/texts

Perseus Digital Library
www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

Harvard Classics Texts
classics.fas.harvard.edu/ancie…

Early Americas Digital Archive
eada.lib.umd.edu/

Early American Sources
www.earlyamericansources.org/d…

Project Whittenberg
www.projectwittenberg.org/

Sacred Texts Archive
sacred-texts.com/

Archive.org Ebooks
archive.org/details/texts

Early BBS & Internet Text Files
textfiles.com/

The Old Usenet Archive
olduse.net/

National Archives Historical Documents
www.archives.gov/historical-do…

National Archives Founding Documents
www.archives.gov/founding-docs

Smithsonian Institution Archives
siarchives.si.edu/

Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives
sova.si.edu/

Library of Congress Archive Collections
www.loc.gov/web-archives/colle…

The Latin Library
thelatinlibrary.com/

ccel.orgHome - Christian Classics Ethereal Library

#Textfiles.com is such a #bizzare blast from the #past. To a point every time I find that site again (basically #remembering it exists 😅) and read through some of the #text files. It gives a bit of #nostalgia. While some of the stuff are wayyy beyond my time I've seen references to them in forums before.

It's a nice read through perse. It got directories/categories of #ASCII art to #stories to the most fun... The #Anarchy section. Just remember anything in the anarchy section is uhhh... Don't try the stuff listed. 😂💀👀

The site in question:
textfiles.com/directory.html

textfiles.comT E X T F I L E S

📎 Link of the day: textfiles.com/
📂 Category: Computers » History

Textfiles.com is an enormous collection of #textfiles from the 1980's, the dawn of modern computing history. "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.comT E X T F I L E S D O T C O M
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@Chip_Unicorn@vulpine.clu
#StuffAlcea

I just make my entire life "#stupid #proof ", by designing everything so dead simple a toddler could use it.

That way I only need to remember a few things,
and the rest I put into #textfiles (codesnippets) or notes (thoughts, ideas )

Even if I wake up groggy or end up sleepless I can still perform well, as I put more thought, into simplifying stuff in the #future

TL;DR:
I put extra effort in today, so that "difficult thing" is easier in every future day

Time for my own #introduction post! Hi, I'm David! 👋🏽

I'm a UX/UI-focused software engineer with a focus on humane technology that *doesn't* eat the world. I've been on #javascript island lately, but in my 20-or-so years I've sailed around the whole archipelago (C/C++, Python, #lua, #golang). I'm a #parent, I'm a hobbyist #gamedev, I'm unhealthily obsessed with #notetaking and #textfiles and #journaling. I like #obsidian just fine but I miss #tiddlywiki. And my usual editor of choice is #neovim.