Jason Scott

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Proprietor of , historian, filmmaker, archivist, storyteller. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur. Pitiful Man.

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#	Date	Post	↓ Outlier	Views	Likes	Reposts	Bookmarks
1	Oct 21, '24	GUESS WHO'S BACK BACK AGAIN ARCHIVE'S BACK TELL A FRIEND	163×	2.9M	159k	24k	10k
2	May 18, '24	Did you feel it? Google just declared war on the web. Exciting times.	113×	2M	13k	770	2.7k
3	Oct 24, '24	Guess what's back. Yes, and are back, as well as (Wayback Machine) and all those amazing items. Some of the features are not up yet, but rest assured we're working on it and our ti	76.4×	1.4M	28k	4k	1.9k
4	Jul 26, '22	View post on X	21.5×	0	19k	4.4k	491
5	Aug 22, '21	The moment of stunned silence after someone suggested the ad copy. The two days of trying to come up with alternatives and failing.	18×	0	17k	2.8k	385
6	May 16, '23	Well, Google, you're going to send the Panics of All Panics now. Please indicate clearly if you will delete Youtube videos under this policy if they are sitting on many, many views	17.3×	310k	1.5k	334	145
7	May 18, '24	I'm sure it is rolling out at various rates, but for most people using Google going forward, it will produce an AI generated summary of the links you were going to go to to read, k	14.9×	267k	5.4k	257	132
8	Feb 5, '22	I mentioned the whole way that the Jimmy Fallon/Paris Hilton strangely-stilted conversation regarding NFTs was likely part of a larger promotion plan and part of being a celebrity	13.8×	0	9.5k	2.7k	1.6k
9	Nov 8, '21	Oh No	13.8×	0	11k	1.5k	210
10	Oct 24, '24	A small amount of the folks at @internetarchive thank you for standing with us.	13.8×	247k	3.4k	249	74
11	Oct 22, '24	Just to set expectations: as the Internet Archive is up, additional work is being done and any issues or concerns may mean the site is taken down for a time. I assure you, we know	13.6×	244k	1.9k	227	95
12	Apr 7, '24	Let's be clear: I hate cryptocurrency but I especially hate Cryptocurrency Grifters. My cat, Sockington, has an account (@sockington) with a million plus followers. A group of thes	12.1×	217k	2k	154	134
13	Aug 8, '17	Spread the word: The Internet Archive has put up 25,000 78rpm records, digitized professionally.	11.9×	0	5.9k	4.3k	7
14	May 18, '24	Google, long moving into the hundreds of percent of turnover, forgot it was part of a social/transaction contract with the web. We will help people find you, and you'll let us craw	11.3×	202k	3.9k	100	66
15	May 18, '24	This isn't about the "ethics of AI", by the way. This is squarely in the "we are doing a thing to choke and kill every website" camp. Google forgot what it is. Or, more accurately,	10.6×	191k	4k	158	58
16	Oct 20, '24	I stand with @internetarchive 🏛️	10.6×	189k	1.2k	193	28
17	Oct 25, '24	Look at that data, heading out to a happy crowd. Thanks for waiting.	9.3×	167k	5.7k	555	360
18	May 18, '24	No tears lost over here. Watching google and chrome bully for half a decade told me where they were headed. Die in irrelevance, amnesia techbros.	9.3×	166k	2.6k	60	298
19	Jan 2, '19	I don't speak Portuguese, so spread as you see fit: If you have Brazilian culture, content or data, please upload it directly to the Internet Archive, or mail hard drives out to us	8.9×	0	5.3k	3k	87
20	Feb 11, '22	If ever a metaphor for the Tech industry existed in real life	8.5×	0	8.4k	1k	338
21	Oct 19, '14	Social Media at its best.	8.5×	0	3.1k	4.1k	1
22	Dec 24, '21	WINNIE THE POOH PUBLIC DOMAIN JANUARY FIRST	8.2×	0	7.4k	1.1k	131
23	Feb 7, '18	View post on X	7.4×	0	5.8k	1.9k	1
24	Jul 3, '23	View post on X	7.2×	129k	3.8k	534	38
25	May 18, '24	@Prius_Patrol DuckDuckGo seems to be holding up for now	7.1×	128k	2.8k	27	165
26	Jul 2, '23	View post on X	6.6×	119k	2.2k	491	10
27	Dec 25, '19	Remember: Just because you made a game in 1994 when you were 12 and only gave away one copy, doesn't mean it won't smack you in the face 25 years later emulated in the browser on t	6.5×	0	5.2k	1.6k	172
28	May 18, '23	Fuck You, Elon Musk	6.5×	116k	2k	133	26
29	Sep 1, '17	For the record, this is the goofiest, most infantilizing rejection letter I've gotten since, maybe, first year of college?	6.3×	0	4.8k	1.4k	40
30	Oct 21, '24	It is in read only mode but some of you only want to read so that works out. A bit of time ago I wrote a whole thing about how to download from the internet archive and some of you	6.2×	112k	2k	183	737
31	May 10, '19	View post on X	6.2×	0	4.9k	1.6k	48
32	Feb 23, '23	Internet Archive is under attack. Someone is posting tens of thousands of posts, comments and other vectors and is crushing the system. We're working on it, sorry for the inconveni	5.7×	103k	946	123	35
33	Jul 24, '23	View post on X	5.7×	103k	2.5k	424	28
34	Jan 21, '17	View post on X	5.4×	0	3.6k	1.8k	0
35	May 18, '24	@NavinFS Mmmm, delicious boot	5.1×	92k	2.8k	11	12
36	Jun 28, '22	Discord Is Not an Archive Treat it like a refrigerator with piles of post-it notes on front that constantly fall off when you reach inside to grab a beer Anything else and you're f	4.7×	0	3.6k	1.2k	86
37	May 7, '20	The 1977 source code for ZORK has been recovered from MIT tapes and released on github. I cloned the repository at and the official MIT github set is at	4.6×	0	3.2k	1.2k	196
38	Mar 26, '22	I am so excited to see all of these go out of business	4.6×	0	4.7k	523	105
39	Oct 24, '24	We have a lot of postmortem and a lot of work left to do, so please be patient as our beloved archive withstands a million people desperately reuniting with their library.	4.4×	80k	2.4k	179	104
40	Dec 31, '20	On this, the "Last Day for Flash", please let people who are sad know about and we're at nearly 3,000 Flash games, animations and toys at the Internet Archive, all playing fine!	4.1×	0	1.9k	1.5k	346
41	Feb 7, '15	View post on X	4.1×	0	1.9k	1.8k	0
42	Nov 18, '19	To celebrate the official launce of Google Stadia (@GoogleStadia) tomorrow, I have created a single-purpose website: . It is a countdown timer set for the average lifespan of any G	3.8×	0	2.6k	1.1k	45
43	Mar 14, '20	great news, we won the war on terror all of a sudden	3.8×	0	3.5k	801	21
44	Nov 3, '19	Wired picked up the "we are scanning every book mentioned on Wikipedia as we can find them and making the cited pages readable" story Which is a big story	3.5×	0	2.6k	827	156
45	Jul 5, '21	n̶i̶x̶o̶n̶ ̶f̶u̶n̶e̶r̶a̶l̶	3.4×	0	3.8k	382	26
46	Nov 10, '19	When the cofounder of Apple reports Apple Pay has a sexist algorithm	3.4×	0	2.8k	855	29
47	Nov 19, '20	The Internet Archive has begun emulating Flash Animations, Games and Toys in a new collection. It's at and it's going to be past 1,000 items in 24 hours. You can add your own and g	3.3×	0	2k	938	173
48	Mar 18, '18	Announced Today: The @internetarchive is now emulating handheld toys and games, building on the work of the @mamedev_org team. These are not "remakes" but emulations of the origina	3.3×	0	1.8k	1.1k	41
49	Nov 26, '19	ATTENTION USERS OF TWITTER. Did someone who know or know of make the huge mistake of dying before clicking through a 2019 Terms of Service for their twitter account? Do you want to	3.2×	0	1.3k	1.2k	147
50	Sep 29, '22	View post on X	3.2×	0	2.6k	656	84
51	May 19, '20	When twitter made that ridiculous "delete all six-months-inactive accounts" declaration and @archiveteam put up a google form to nominate accounts to archive, 70% of the 10,000 req	3.1×	0	1.7k	912	188
52	Jul 21, '14	Why do we preserve history? I think this event makes it obvious.	3.1×	0	1.5k	1.3k	1
53	Oct 21, '21	RIP Hiroshi Ono, a true artist whose works you may recognize.	3.0×	0	2.6k	670	60
54	Dec 29, '17	FOLKS, IT IS TIME ONCE AGAIN FOR ME TO ASK EVERYONE TO TRACK DOWN COLLECTIONS OF APPLE ][ FLOPPIES IN THEIR HOMES, SCHOOL BASEMENTS, AND STORAGE UNITS. 2017 HAS BEEN A BANNER YEAR	3.0×	0	1.4k	1.2k	0
55	Apr 4, '19	ANNOUNCING THE MYSPACE MUSIC DRAGON HOARD, a 450,000 song collection of mp3s from 2008-2010 on MySpace, gathered before they were all "deleted" by mistake. includes a link to a spe	2.9×	0	1.7k	869	122
56	Oct 25, '24	We are so glad you are all stopping by the Internet Archive.	2.9×	51k	2.6k	148	54
57	Jul 22, '21	View post on X	2.7×	0	1.9k	780	92
58	Oct 18, '22	If you give the slightest whit of a care about 1980s-2000s computer and software history, your mind is about to be very blown. Some people worked very hard on this, and anonymous c	2.6×	0	1.7k	341	484
59	Dec 2, '17	I'm just going to leave it at "Private Jets Are Now Tax Free".	2.5×	0	1.6k	767	0
60	Apr 7, '22	Wake up every day and make the choice.	2.5×	0	2.3k	440	41
61	Feb 4, '22	Your pal Jason has a Friday Writing Assignment for you. I am sorry about that, but it's about the future of the Internet, so I hope you understand what's at stake here. It's for wh	2.5×	0	937	843	225
62	May 15, '19	YOU'RE THE ARCHIVE NOW, DOG: Archive Team took a full copy of You're The Man Now Dog (YTMND) last year - should be playable in Wayback Machine now or soonish.	2.4×	0	1.6k	576	76
63	Oct 1, '19	HELLO EVERYONE I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LONG WEEKEND BUT MANY OF YOU ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO <shuffles through notes> DOWNLOADING OVER 80 GIGABYTES OF J2ME SOFTWARE PRESERVED BY A C	2.3×	0	1.7k	509	123
64	Oct 5, '18	So, uh, hi everybody. Internet Archive is in the process of adding in-browser emulation support for Commodore 64. Here's a collection of currently working and tested for at least b	2.2×	0	1.4k	583	37
65	Sep 29, '21	If you read the bible carefully, you will discover the angels look like this:	2.1×	0	2.1k	309	38
66	Aug 25, '22	People are uploading hundreds, absolutely HUNDREDS, of out of print instructional VHS tapes. I threw them all into a (still-growing!) collection here: If there's something you need	2.1×	0	1.2k	413	325
67	Jan 15, '22	View post on X	2.1×	0	2.1k	295	35
68	Aug 26, '19	American Educational Priorities in a nutshell	2.1×	0	1.4k	444	23
69	Mar 25, '20	Do you need fantastically good news you'll want to spread around? The Internet Archive, recognizing the National Emergency in place, has created the National Emergency Library - an	2.0×	0	977	743	112
70	Jan 31, '22	View post on X	2.0×	0	2k	318	12
71	Apr 16, '19	I've uploaded the entirety of source code of all Infocom text adventures/interactive fiction to Github. If you don't understand ZIL, and you probably don't, read this instruction m	2.0×	0	1.2k	518	82
72	Jul 4, '21	Audacity and it's super-nice-except-fuck-you-dude project leader seem to be getting ahead of schedule on the ruination.	2.0×	0	1.2k	448	64
73	Dec 15, '20	If you have ANYTHING on DVD-Rs or CDRs, PLEASE PLEASE transfer them off NOW. PLEASE. They are probably already dead. Please.	1.8×	0	1.1k	453	70
74	Nov 28, '17	@stillchip 🎶Probably not best to react to crime by describing way to optimize it 🎶	1.8×	0	2.3k	56	0
75	Jan 6, '18	Meanwhile, in Europe, the entire Amiga floppy collection of the Belgian cracking group Bamiga Sector One has been recovered and a great guy named Simon will be imaging them.	1.7×	0	1.4k	416	2
76	Dec 27, '18	View post on X	1.6×	0	1.4k	377	10
77	Nov 9, '20	Wolfenstein 3D running in DOS running emulated in a browser running in a VR headset Totally normal, life isn't moving too fast	1.5×	0	1.5k	237	36
78	Jun 28, '22	View post on X	1.5×	0	1.6k	213	6
79	Oct 27, '18	Sign on the wall of the internet archive operations group	1.5×	0	1.3k	324	6
80	Jun 7, '19	Someone uploaded a WIP3OUT Press CD from the time of the release of the game, and it's a great insight into a variety of graphics and culture around early Playstation history. (199	1.5×	0	1.2k	340	41
81	Mar 17, '19	Just in case you're wondering how it's going.	1.5×	0	1k	249	24
82	Jan 2, '20	50 year copyrights	1.4×	0	1.3k	311	4
83	Jan 14, '21	Congratulations everybody the search engine bought the last 13 years of your GPS Data	1.4×	0	1k	356	21
84	Nov 8, '21	Look, when Tim O'Reilly first coined "Web 2.0", it was a way of saying, roughly, that static HTML files on sites were going to be augmented, maybe replaced, by dynamic HTML that wo	1.4×	0	1.7k	94	20
85	Mar 19, '20	JSTOR just opened a mass of their articles and books to the public - my pal would have liked it sooner	1.4×	0	1.2k	246	22
86	Nov 11, '21	View post on X	1.4×	0	1.4k	196	11
87	Nov 8, '21	But it's quite clear that this new thing with all these opportunistic scammers is something else So, I know it won't catch on, but maybe instead when we see them go "WEB3", we go "	1.3×	0	1.6k	115	8
88	Jul 18, '22	I'm sorry to report that @sockington had a downturn in health and is no longer with us. He was cared for every day of his dumb little life to the top standards of a celebrity cat a	1.3×	0	1.1k	109	10
89	Nov 5, '21	View post on X	1.3×	0	1.3k	198	8
90	Aug 24, '20	Let's once again remember that the Internet Archive is hosting not only 65,000 Winamp Skins (!!) at - but we have a javascript-based Winamp emulator called WEBAMP that will create	1.3×	0	899	251	81
91	Mar 17, '19	Anyone who doesn't think this is going to happen with Youtube is kidding themselves.	1.2×	0	1.3k	157	4
92	Dec 25, '21	Thank you to the 500,000 people who have visited this tweet. I'm delighted to see so much interest in the public domain. We take a one day break every year to celebrate the hundred	1.0×	0	840	168	99
93	Dec 7, '22	Few examples of justice being meted out in the world can match the brothers finally receiving financial reward in what I hope is literally millions for their lifetime project of Dw	1.0×	0	987	174	16
94	Oct 11, '20	This. I want to go to Jail for this.	1.0×	0	954	174	12
95	Nov 8, '21	Hey, new Scumbag Web feature just dropped - you can buy and sell original artwork and they destroy the original in place for a token indicating you paid for it to be destroyed. Ah,	1.0×	0	1.2k	51	3
96	Feb 20, '20	I was walking with a friend in Sunnyvale, and a cat started following us. For 20 blocks. After a while, we're worried we just lost someone's cat. and we go over to him and pick him	0.9×	0	899	165	14
97	Aug 9, '19	Buried in the @IncredibleCulk thread about a Home Alone reboot is this gold	0.9×	0	860	131	8
98	Nov 8, '21	Oh, a Scumbag Web Conference is being held next week, in an alley	0.7×	0	945	26	1
99	Oct 28, '22	Blog: Mastodon: textfiles@digipres.club IRC: sketchcow/hackint Mail: jason@textfiles.com Twitch: textfiles Youtube: textfilesdotcom Tiktok: textfiles Home: Heart: Podcast:	0.4×	0	262	22	93

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