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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
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<HTML><TITLE>T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M</TITLE>
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<!-- TEXTFILES.COM is a site dedicated to the Textfiles of the BBS World -->
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<!-- from the 1980's. Naturally, this role expands into the continuation -->
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<!-- of the textfile-writing world into the 1990's, and goes back to the -->
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<!-- 1960's and 1970's as well. If you have any questions, feel free to -->
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<!-- mail them to jason@textfiles.com. Submissions are always wanted. -->
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<!-- Unlike a lot of sites, this Page Source has a lot of comments. This -->
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<!-- is because this site's main purpose is education, and a user should -->
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<!-- have the opportunity to see how this site was created and what the -->
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<!-- thought process was behind the look. Plus, the site weighs in at a -->
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<!-- very low size, so giving an explanation with the download is not a -->
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<!-- very bandwidth-intensive activity, and might inspire someone. -->
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<!-- Since TEXTFILES.COM harkens back to an earlier era, but is being done -->
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<!-- in the modern era, it is the usual blend of recent features and hacks -->
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<!-- to simulate older technology. In this case, everything is in green -->
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<!-- (which, believe it or not, is the light that the eye takes the longest -->
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<!-- to get tired looking at) on a black screen, and the visual "hook" is -->
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<!-- the Blinking Cursor, which has disappeared in a lot of mainstream, -->
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<!-- windowed applications. This is accomplished with small animated GIFs. -->
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<!-- Now, let's make the page the usual black background and green text. -->
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<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="00FF00" LINK="00FF00" ALINK="#00FF00" VLINK="#00FF00">
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<!-- Where possible, use the courier font, which looks like old-style
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typewriter faces. Make sure that this color will be green too. -->
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<CENTER>
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<TABLE WIDTH="100%">
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<TR><TD ALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR="#004400">
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<B><CENTER><FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier" COLOR="#00FF00">
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TEXTFILES.COM Mirror Sites: </B></A><BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.textfiles.com/index.html"
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TITLE="TEXTFILES.COM Parent Mirror, US">US</A>
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<A HREF="http://textfiles.meulie.net"
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TITLE="Evert Meulie, Germany">.DE</A>
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<A HREF="http://textfiles.serverrack.net/"
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TITLE="SERVERRACK.NET, Fairfax, VA">US-VA</A>
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<A HREF="http://textfiles.vistech.net/"
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TITLE="Vistech, Talahassee, FL">US-FL</A>
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<A HREF="http://mirror3.preterhuman.net/textfiles"
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TITLE="Preterhuman, BC, CANADA">BC-CA</A>
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</CENTER></TD></TR>
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</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
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<TR><TD ALIGN=MIDDLE><FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier" COLOR="#00FF00" size=+2>If you enjoy textfiles.com, tweet about it with hashtag #textfiles.</FONT>
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</TABLE>
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<TABLE HEIGHT=80%>
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<TR><TD ALIGN=MIDDLE>
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<CENTER>
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<IMG ALT="T E X T F I L E S"
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WIDTH=391 HEIGHT=68 SRC="images/textfile.gif">
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<TABLE WIDTH=620>
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<TR><TD VALIGN=CENTER>
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<!-- Make this entire description bright green letters, much like the -->
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<!-- logo, and use a "Courier" font, which will give the letters more -->
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<!-- of a "typewriter" look, again for a sort of nostalgia feel. -->
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier" COLOR="#00FF00">
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On the face of things, we seem to be merely talking about text-based files,
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containing only the letters of the English Alphabet (and the occasional
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punctuation mark).
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<P>
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On deeper inspection, of course, this isn't quite the case. What this site
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offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the
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128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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(ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980's textfiles and the world
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as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s
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works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day.
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</FONT>
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</TD></TR>
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</TABLE>
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<!-- Having completed the quick blurb introduction, give the user -->
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<!-- five choices. Essentially, WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHY, and HOW. -->
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<P>
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<!-- These five choices are presented in their own table, which has a -->
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<!-- WIDTH tag set slightly larger than the table above. This is in -->
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<!-- truth a somewhat meaningless width, since all three items are GIFs -->
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<!-- and are only on one line, so how wide it is is How Wide It Is. The -->
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<!-- tag is mostly added for completeness, and potentially to help the -->
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<!-- browser to render. -->
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<TABLE WIDTH=640>
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<TR><TD ALIGN=CENTER>
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<!-- "Where are the Files?" will take the user to the file directory. -->
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<!-- When designing a site, it is very important to know what it is your -->
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<!-- intended audience is going to want and to give it to them. All the -->
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<!-- work you put into providing a nice-looking page will be meaningless -->
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<!-- if the users are feeling they are "wading through" your work to get -->
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<!-- to whatever it is they specifically want. To this end, the main -->
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<!-- "point" of this site is to give users textfiles, so the archives -->
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<!-- are the first selection. -->
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<A HREF="directory.html">
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<IMG WIDTH=219 HEIGHT=28 ALT="  Where are the Files?  "
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SRC="images/wheref.gif" BORDER=0></A>
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<TD ALIGN=CENTER>
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<!-- "Who are You?" answers the question of who runs the site. -->
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<!-- Often, people like to know what person or persons are behind the site -->
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<!-- they are browsing, to see if they can pick up biases, or, if the site -->
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<!-- is interesting, to learn more about the person who made the site, as -->
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<!-- they too might be interesting. I have taken advantage of that to put -->
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<!-- all of my historical perspectives, site news, and personal writing -->
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<!-- on a page about myself, separate from the rest of the file pages. -->
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<!-- This also means that the people who are reading stuff about me will -->
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<!-- be people who have shown, by clicking the middle selection, that they -->
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<!-- like to get a "big picture view" of everything. Or that they're nosy. -->
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<!-- Or that they click on things randomly. I will accept all three. -->
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<A HREF="jason">
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<IMG WIDTH=139 HEIGHT=28 ALT="  Who are You?  "
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SRC="images/whoyou.gif" BORDER=0></A>
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<TD ALIGN=CENTER>
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<!-- "Why Are You Doing This?" shows my motivations and site information. -->
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<!-- I phrased all three of the selections for TEXTFILES.COM in the form of -->
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<!-- questions, to put the reader/browser into an inquisitve mood, to ask -->
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<!-- why things are, where things came from, who is behind the curtain. In -->
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<!-- this last page, I provide myself a forum to give a "statement" as to -->
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<!-- why I've dumped weeks of time into this project. I believe it, too. -->
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<A HREF="statement.html">
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<IMG WIDTH=228 HEIGHT=28 ALT="  Why does this Matter?  "
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SRC="images/wmatter.gif" BORDER=0></A>
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<TR><TD ALIGN=CENTER>
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<!-- "What was it Like?" will be the part that gives you tours and the -->
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<!-- perspective of all the fine folks who were a part of this world. -->
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<A HREF="history">
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<IMG HEIGHT=28 WIDTH=191 ALT="  What was it Like?  "
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SRC="images/whatw.gif" BORDER=0></A>
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<TD>
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<TD ALIGN=CENTER>
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<A HREF="support">
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<IMG HEIGHT=28 WIDTH=176 ALT="  How can I Help?  "
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SRC="images/howc.gif" BORDER=0></A>
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</TR></TD>
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</TABLE>
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</TABLE>
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</TABLE>
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<TABLE WIDTH=100%>
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<TR><TD ALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR="#004400">
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<CENTER>
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<B><FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier" COLOR="#00FF00">
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TEXTFILES.COM Sites</B></A><BR>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="http://ascii.textfiles.com"
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TITLE="Jason Scott's Weblog">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">ASCII</B></A>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="http://www.bbsdocumentary.com"
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TITLE="Jason Scott's BBS Documentary!">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">BBSDOCUMENTARY</B></A>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="http://artscene.textfiles.com"
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TITLE="ARTSCENE.TEXTFILES.COM: Decades of Computer Art and Expression">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">ARTSCENE</B></A>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="http://www.bbshistory.org"
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TITLE="BBSHISTORY.ORG: Jason's Collections of Online History">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">BBSHISTORY</B></A>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="http://cd.textfiles.com"
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TITLE="CD.TEXTFILES.COM: Dozens of old Shareware CDs">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">CD</B></A>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="http://digest.textfiles.com"
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TITLE="DIGEST.TEXTFILES.COM: The Mailing Lists That Made a Difference">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">DIGEST</B></A>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="http://web.textfiles.com"
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TITLE="WEB.TEXTFILES.COM: Textfiles That Have Come After 1995">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">WEB</B></A>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="http://bbslist.textfiles.com"
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TITLE="BBSLIST.TEXTFILES.COM: All the BBSes there Ever Were">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">BBSLIST</B></A>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="http://timeline.textfiles.com"
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TITLE="TIMELINE.TEXTFILES.COM: BBS-Related Events">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">TIMELINE</B></A>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="http://pdf.textfiles.com"
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TITLE="PDF.TEXTFILES.COM: Your Eclectic PDF Collection">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">PDF</B></A>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="http://audio.textfiles.com"
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TITLE="AUDIO.TEXTFILES.COM: The Sound of Online">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">AUDIO</B></A>
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<A style="text-decoration: none"
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HREF="10"
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TITLE="10 years of textfiles.com!">
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<FONT FACE="Courier New,Courier">10</B></A>
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</CENTER>
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</TABLE>
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<P>
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</FONT>
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</BODY>
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</HTML>
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