Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

The Unending Projects Episode: Perspective On Many Projects, Believing There's No End Where There Are, Ends I've Witnessed, Ends I've Been, Lessons Learned and Projects Beyond. A rumination on the nature of large scale projects and projects without end, and how I've managed with them. Special Information Cube appearance, as well as thoughts on my other long-term messes.

The Great Cacophony of Scanning Episode: An Influx Valve, Mucking The Stables, Infinite Discords, The Cover Problem, NASA Launch and Photos On A Carpet, A Trickle Versus a Flood, The Inevitable Future, A Moment of Joy. Some thoughts on the incoming mass of material coming into the Archive right now. I mention the Pulp Magazine Archive, which is here: https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive

The Oculus Episode: An Unexpected Gift, A Long Life with VR, A Dingy Hotel Room, Features, Magic, Favorite Apps, An Unlikely Constant Place. I was handed an Oculus Quest 2. Nobody asked me to do a review, but I figured it'd be fun to do one anyway. There's actually all sorts of rules towards people saying they "just happen to have" something and then doing a review of it, so I'll just say that I wasn't going to buy one and I got one for free, and I've enjoyed it. My Oculus "Name" is BoVRine; feel free to link up if you have one of these things.

The Election Episode: Being an Election Inspector, Training for the Unusual, Poll Pads, 300 Feet, 5am, 6am, Shivering Hands, Solid Day, Meeting 675 People, Suit and Gloves, Giving an Oath, 90 Minutes of Silence, A Customer Service Job, An Unforunate Coda. The wonders of being an Election Inspector! I highly encourage people to look into working elections, in both General and Local years. It's been some of my favorite work in general.

The Flash Episode: Saving a Medium, A History of Flash, The Death Blow and the Death, Ruffle The Flash, Flashpoint, An Audio/Video Conversation. The Internet Archive now supports emulating .SWF files (Flash) that were a critical part of the web whether it should have been, or not. Dozens of new, playable animations are flying in all the time. The top level of the collection is https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash The excellent emulator of Flash is Ruffle, at http://ruffle.rs The most important Flash is Badgers. https://archive.org/details/flash_badger

The Silence Episode.

The Software Forgery Episode: Let's Do This, The First Software Forgeries, Altair 8800, Pre-Order or Vaporware, The Richard Garriott Scam, Stickers and Wiped Disks, Falling Apart, Grading and Quality, Tokens of Capital, Heading Forward, Fake Historical Promotion, Keep Going. I don't mention the name of the software, but it's Akalabeth: World of Doom. First sold in 1979 as a limited baggie software before being sold by California Pacific Computer Company, before being remixed from scratch and turned into what became Ultima. For the story of an amazing fraud, look up World Power Systems: https://medium.com/@madmedic11671/forgotten-fraud-world-power-systems-e11320aa681d

The Generosity Episode: Jason Asks About Being Generous. A Guy And His Kickstarter. The Motivations. Early Survival Pizza. Making the Leap. A Documentary As Mission. The Background Conversation. Another Thank You. A somewhat strange episode, talking about what being generous means to me. I don't know if I'm the best life coach, but another Jason asked and Jasons have to stick together, for a while at least.

The Amish Shareware Episode: The Big Leagues, The Top Shelf, Pop-Up Magazine, My Story Pitch, The Spy, Fact-Check Failure, The Missed Opportunity, Software Forgery, Never Stop Trying. A story that I thought was the best, and which had to be thought too good to be true in the fact check. (I still believe it is true). Majere's Legacy: http://www.librum.us/ - Majere (1959-2008).

The Tea Party Episode: 10,000 Year Clock, The Long Now, Disclosure, Fine Drinks and a Speech, The Low Bar, Inspiring or Cynical, Why Drive Ahead, The Knowledge We Keep, A Closing Music Shop and a Lot of Manuals. Thanks to Andre G for the idea.

The Past Future Episode: A Hospital Visit, Audio Formats, Speaking Without Knowing, Wozniak and Jobs, Exercised, Technology Designs, The Best Isn't What Wins, Factories and Factors, Cheap and Expensive. Thanks to Scotty Deepgeek Fitzgerald for the idea. (And the visit.)

The File Format Wiki Episode: An Awful Failure, A Tremendous Success, An Acknowledgement of a Poor Idea, Just Solve One Problem, Easy Not Hard, Field vs. Forest, What is a File Format Anyway, 2012 Turned Into 2013, The Forever Problem, A Format Mirror, The Great Success of Failure. Thanks to Dan Tobias for the idea of this episode. The File Formats Wiki is at https://fileformats.archiveteam.org.

The Green Room Episode: Public Speaking, Green Rooms, Quiet Before 15, School Announcer, DEFCON, Jeff Moss' Room, Webstock, XOXO, SXSW, Confrontations, A Long Overdue Hug. This episode comes from an idea by Chris Erlanson.

Curt Vendel. Curt's 2003 BBS Documentary appearance: https://archive.org/details/bbs-20030323-vendel Curt at the 2019 VCF Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlqxDgnYHWU Curt and Marty's book: https://www.amazon.com/Atari-Inc-Business-Curt-Vendel/dp/0985597402

The Typewriter Episode: It Was Supposed To Be Magazines, Elaine and the Boxes, Floor to Ceiling, Tytell Typewriter, Sorting and Divisions, Books and Ephemera and Golden Pallets, The Typewriter Business, Peter's Last Wishes, A Project Ahead. Also: Battery Danger and Write Me 20 Times. An episode about how a simple picking up of magazines led to two truckloads of typewriter history. Some URLs worth reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/11/typewriter-man/376988/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Tytell https://www.irishtimes.com/business/no-carriage-return-for-the-jurassic-typewriter-1.304472 https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/nyregion/new-yorkers-co-mr-typewriter-new-york.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/nyregion/12tytell.html https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/19/nyregion/one-fewer-place-to-unstick-a-inicky-f-key.html http://algerhiss.com/history/the-hiss-case-the-1940s/the-typewriter/forgery-by-typewriter/forging-a-typewriter/ http://afflictor.com/2012/06/11/he-could-make-an-american-typewriter-speak-145-different-tongues-from-russian-to-homeric-greek/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/obituaries/mary-adelman-89-fixer-of-broken-typewriters-is-dead.html https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-tribute-to-peter-tytell-son-of.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/peter-v-tytell-dead.html

The Action Park Documentary Episode: A Late Thursday Night, Action Park, 10 Years Ago, 2 Years of Research, A Coffee, Interview, Pile Driver, The Bones of the Plan, The Release, My Review, Nothing in the World. The website for the Class Action Park documentary: https://www.classactionpark.com/

The Medical and Life Checkup Episode: An Accident With Repercussions, Bounce Back, Two Weeks, Open Inboxes That Never Close, What It's All Been, What Goes On, 100 Hours of Podcast, A Day Grabbed With Two Hands.r Just a little reflection on a post-accident depression and concern which I am now definitively out of.

The Mysterious 4am: Big Plans for Kansasfest, The Wrong Bar at the Wrong Time, The Mysterious History of 4am, I'm Fine. No car accident is going to stop me from recording an episode! Also, you get to hear my voice modulate differently for slides and video that don't exist. The description for "The Mysterious History of 4am" from the Kansasfest program:| International Cracker of Mystery 4AM is not just a hero, a teacher, an inspiration; they're also an indication of the heights the art of software engineering can achieve. Let's walk it all through. Jason Scott, recently voted "Least Likely to Be 4AM" but also voted "Most Likely to Work at the Internet Archive" presents historical work of 4AM, introduces the audience unaware of the scope of 4AM's work to what has gone on over the past few years, and hopes to bring the hundreds of new visitors to Virtual Kansasfest just what they have been missing.

The Inbox Cornucopia Episode: Appreciating What You Have, Two Arcades Gone, The Moment of Wonder of Incoming Archive, Spam and Vandalism, The Worlds We'll Learn Of, My Favorite Stripes, Stop by the Inbox Today. An episode about my favorite current situation, the mass of incoming materials to the Internet Archive and just enjoying the stream as it goes by. This episode also invites listeners to send me questions and ideas, which I might use for future episode subjects. It's time for the feedback loop to begin!

The Novel Episode: A Book Never Written, The Plot, A Cleaning to Make Room For The Next Things. Time to make good on my promise of "move ahead or move on", and so here's the plot of a novel I concocted when I was in my 20s that I haven't done anything with in 25 years. It's lacking a lot of details, but it feels good to share and move on. I'll have many other projects in my future to finish.

Three Extraordinary Stories Told Ordinarily: Russian Mechanic, Quake Logo Massacre, Nobody Lives Here, Tetris. Three stories about usual outcomes, presented simply. I found the photos we took of the Quake Logo, they're now here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157714912854851 The Tetris: http://cs.brown.edu/news/2000/04/17/tetris/ - strangely, it's been done a couple times since 2000 and the articles always insist on saying it's the "first" time. MIT has also done this sort of project as well.

The Ultimate BBS List Episode: 20 Years of The BBS List, What Got Me Started, The Story Everyone Knows, The Story Less People Know, The Contraption Inside, 1982 not 1983, Philosophy of Complication, Where to Go From Here, The BBS List Forever. An episode about the BBS List collection at BBSLIST.TEXTFILES.COM and what got me going on it. I mentioned a couple other nice information sites. GOT PAPERS? Is the demoscene letter collection. It's at: https://gotpapers.scene.org/ The Sixteen Colors collection of ANSI art is here: https://16colo.rs/

The Winding Conversation Episode: Watchmaking, My Pal Chris Orcutt, Our 40 Years of Talking, A Marathon of Words, Intertwined Lives, Podcast Jason, Chris' Typewriter, 15-50-80, Advice To Turn a Final Chapter Into The Middle Of The Story. Another podcast about my friend Chris Orcutt (https://orcutt.net) and our very long, near-legendary conversations we've had forever, and what that represents and inspires.

Three Stories: Wooden Signs and Paper Plates, Naked Man, Whipped Cream and Brotherly Love. Three short tales from my life, gathered together in a val-u-pak for the joy of others.

The Extreme Pain Episode: An Argument In The Car, I Killed You, Truly Can't Get Out of Bed, Crutches, What The Pain Means, What The Pain Was, An Airport Waiting Room, The Worst Doctor Ever, The Cure, The Fallout, A Changed Person, The Results, Poverty Charges Interest, Health Insurance. An episode about the worst pain of my life. If that's a bit much for you, I understand if you wish to skip it. Spoiler: I'm much better now! And it was a long time ago! Tay Zonday's tweet, which I think about all the time: https://twitter.com/tayzonday/status/1020003667921940480

The Automatic Document Feeder Episode: Acquiring an ADF, How Flatbed Scanners Work, The Lie of Scanning, How ADF Scanners Work, Asking For Help, 35 Minutes, 339 Pages, 3 Books, The Non-Intuitive Parts, The Results, A Prayer. Also: Debinding And Its Malcontents. An episode about high-speed scanning on the acquisition of a lovely Fujitsu 7160 scanner acquired thanks to donations.

The Lost Month. A biography of Tony Cennamo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cennamo

The Storage Unit Episode: Down to Two Units, The Legend of the Information Cube, A Pile of Yes, A Tour of Screens and Magazines, Where It All Went, How the Last Two Units are Laid Out, A Pile of Props, MC Frontalot Shoot, Where It Will End, An Actual Attic, 100 Years. Here's 400 photos of my shoot in Queens with MC Frontalot: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157705604332681 I mentioned several museums and archives as I always have: Strong Museum of Play, Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, and the Vintage Computer Federation. All of these organizations are excellent, and worth your donations and support.

The Conspiracy Episode: Conspiracy Love, 1985 and Annette Arky, Playboy, Comics, Underground, Deep Underground, Ninjas, Guns and G-Files, The Muffin File, The Comfort of Conspiracy, The Mechanism of the World, The Dark Byways, A Friend Forgotten. I mention Da Muffin Papers, you can browse them here: https://archive.org/details/DaMuffinPapers The event I'm speaking of at the end is Heroku's Waza year 2013. My talk, "Time Travel from 2100: A Kit" is viewable at https://vimeo.com/61059533. A 2003 Loompanics Catalog: https://archive.org/details/Loompanics_Catalog_2003 Loompanics and Paladin Press were the classic go-to for "Underground Publishing" although I had a number of others I got in the mail. Both these organizations had FBI files, released in 2011: https://boingboing.net/2011/07/20/fbi-releases-files-o-1.html

The Lost Space Racing Game Demo Movie Episode: Focus Studios, Two Major Projects, The Racing Game, Mark's Dream, Car Logos, Design, 3D Studio, 2 Months, Gone Forever, Starting a Race You Don't Know How To Finish, Lessons For The Next Impossible Project. Also: No Regrets. An episode about TUNNEL VISION, an unreleased (and un-made) game by Focus Studios that I did some art design for, including making a very large and ambitious demo movie for. I asked Mark if he has any copies of this stuff around - I give it a very low chance, but life is funny sometimes.

The 100th Episode: Start With Another Episode Please , A Little More About My Supporters, Unediting, Why This Was Started, Speech Therapy, Unintended Results, The Many Positives, Therapy In General, Where To Go Next, A Little More About My Other Supporters. The 100th episode was recorded with no editing using the on-board microphone, which hopefully leaves only the real fans of this show and others scampering to the better, less meta episodes. Thank you so much for having me get to this milestone. I would have never thought I'd have done it, and I will double down to give you the best stories and wonders for April and beyond.

The Games of the Mechners Episode: High School, David Mechner, Brother Jordan, Karateka, The Next Game, Assassin, The Rules, A Shining Moment, An Answered Doorbell, Reading Unlimited, Rotoscoping, The David in the Machine. While gathering links, I discovered the Mechners have a foundation and all the kids are on the advisory board! http://mechnerfoundation.org/ Jordan Mechner has an amazing archive of his own work here: https://www.jordanmechner.com/archive/ The Wikipedia entry for the Assassin Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin_(game) Horace Greeley High School has some lovely photos of the halls and campus at the site: https://www.ccsd.ws/horace-greeley-home

The Bear Mountain Episode: Hudson Valley, Rejecting Nature, Bear Mountain State Park, The Bridge, The Lodge, The Pool, The Trail, The Zoo, Daniel Carter Beard, Strange Places, Low-Slung Buildings, A Spectacular Spot, Telling The Story Beyond Yourself. The Bear Mountain Lodge/Inn has a very snazzy page: https://visitbearmountain.com/ More about the bird watching at Bear Mountain: https://parks.ny.gov/parks/13/bird-conservation-areas.aspx An overview of the museums and zoo at Bear Mountain: https://parks.ny.gov/environment/nature-centers/20/details.aspx What I (and locals) call the Bear Mountain Bridge is officially called the Purple Heart Veterans Memorial Bridge, and here's some information about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Mountain_Bridge

The Nightmare Space Episode: A Nightmare Repeats, The Lost Great Space, The Museumsquartier, A Booth, Spaces I Have Known: L0pht CT Hackerspace, and Hack42, The Space of the Webpage, 1990s Net, Dreams From the Nightmares, Never Stop Dreaming.The Museumsquatier website is at https://www.mqw.at/en/ It is a constantly changing and flowing location, and I don't know if the actual corridor I'm speaking of has a name, but you'll find plenty of inspiring aspects to it - definitely visit if you're ever in Vienna/Wein. The CT Hackerspace is at http://www.cthackerspace.com/ Hack42 is over at https://hack42.nl/blog/ The results of the scanning at Hack42 so far is at https://archive.org/details/manuals_hack42 I wish I had a photo of that pyramid building off Route 9! But I can't find a single record of it.

The Game Ideas Episode: 25 Years Later, Two Game Ideas: Central Plumbing Unit, Ante Meridian: The Morning of The World. Focus Studios, Mark The Alien, The Real World, The Difficulty of Making Games Live, HK Project, Get In The Car Loser, Make Your Own Game. I mention a game called HK Project: https://hk-devblog.com/ Kowloon City is a rewarding research project in itself. Get In The Car, Loser! has a Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/938860/Get_In_The_Car_Loser/

The Metal.Ball Episode: For the Love of a Ball, TinyMUD, MUD, Port 4201, CB Radio, Smokey and the Bandit, TinyTIM, Metal.Ball's Roll-Playing, Mystery of the World, The Metal Ball Inside My Heart The story of a special online character, who never stopped rolling into my life and represents one of the most positive experiences I've had in the realm of a world I don't belong to anymore. TinyTIM is at tim.org port 5440.

The Cybersmith Episode: The Shining Moment of the Cybersmith, Paperback Booksmith, Mall Chains, Harvard Square, The Last Mile, Rabbit Warrens, Cybersmith's Luxury, The Fade, The Memory of a Promise. Here's everything I could find easily mentioning Cybersmith: An article about visiting Cybersmith in 1995: http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/mar/jason.html CS Monitor on Same: https://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0217/17032.html NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/03/business/waiter-oh-waiter-excuuuse-me-but-there-s-a-mouse-in-my-coffee.html The article from the Boston Globe announcing the end of Cybersmith: http://graphics.boston.com/globe/living/cyberlinks/cybersmith.shtml Photos are a bit scant; a small amount from Getty Images: https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/cybersmith?phrase=cybersmith&sort=mostpopular#license

The Apple Cassette Episode: My Silly Reputation, A Witness To A Wonder, Two Cassettes and 3 Hours of Scrutiny, Ciderpress, A Car With No Gas, Apple Cassette Protection Schemes, 16k, Custom Cards, Vertical Monitor. The author of Ciderpress gave a great overview of Apple Cassette schemes here: https://fadden.com/apple2/cassette-protect.html Ciderpress' home page is at https://a2ciderpress.com/ I mention these awesome sites: http://www.hackzapple.com/INDEX0.HTM https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/

The Hazy View Episode: A Single Moment and a Single Feeling, Realism and Unrealism, Graphics Efforts, The Forgotten Moment, The Melancholy Wish, An Older Person With an Older Memory, Childhood's Haze. A simple fetch quest turns into a forgotten childhood memory. The single-best overview of the amount of technical effort and calculation behind every frame of Grand Theft Auto V is probably http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study/ - while others are out there, the use of a single frame of the game (that calculates 60 frames per second) lets you look at all the subsystems and choices made to make the system run. If that's not deep enough for you, may I suggest Miriam Bellard's explanation of baking story and meaning into architecture in GTA V: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025736/Environment-Design-as-Spatial-Cinematography

The Dad Question Episode: A Simple Question, Why Did The Internet Archive Even Happen, What Even Is All This, The Infinite Growth, What Data Really Is, The Handfuls Taken From The Ocean, Towards the Future. A simple question from my Dad forces me to explain how we got into this mess and how we're going to have to keep in it, even in the face of impossibility. The URL https://archive.org/~tracey/mrtg is not the most perfect page and not set up for easy understanding of what it's talking about, but it is the most up to date indicator of how much data is floating into the Internet Archive and how it's handling it. With an understanding and a stress that not all of the used disk space is "stuff" you can browse or necessarily related directly to Internet Archive stored items, over 60 petabytes of unique disk space has been stored by all operations and that's at least 120 petabytes of real hard drives.

The Other Arcade Episode: The Dream Machine, Bad Real Estate, What Happened to Arcades, The Places I'd Seek, Lake George, Childhood Gone, Quassy Park, My Short-Lived Vending Machine Idea, Organized Crime, Barcadians, No Documentary, Except a Documentary, Dream Machine. Another episode covering arcades, but I wanted to approach this important-to-me subject through an alternate thread. I wanted people to know that http://arcadedocumentary.com now points to a project called ARCADIA, which I'm supporting as a replacement for what I'd been intending to do with my own film. Carly Kocurek, who was interviewed for my film, came out with a book you might have missed called COIN OPERATED AMERICANS, the page for which is here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/coin-operated-americans In the episode, I don't mention Lyons Pinball, which of all the public arcades (there were a few private ones I also liked), I found the most charming, and the most lovely. Here's their website (they're in Lyons, Colorado), and they are still the only place in the world you can consistently play one of the ultra-rare JOUST two-headed pinballs machines (less than 500 were ever made). http://www.lyonspinball.com/intro.htm Besides my URL, here's the official URL for Arcadia: https://arcadiathemovie.com/ Do you need to know about Quassy Amusement park? https://www.quassy.com/ The Wikipedia article of Quassy is currently more useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassy_Amusement_Park It's the internet, so there's pages about the Dream Machine in Poughkeepsie (the other one in my area, besides the one I went to at Dutchess Mall), and it even has photos of what I'm talking about: https://thearcadearchives.com/2011/09/21/raygunn-dreams-of-dream-machine/ All hail arcades!

Forever.

The Ingestion and Loss Episode: Winter Floppy Boxes, Kansasfest 2019 Flux Party, The Levels of Floppies, Screen Shotgun has Menu Awareness, Why Even, The Death of the Artist, Randy Suess, Laughing Squid's Photo Policy. A few thoughts on imaging floppies, and never knowing who will take care of your stuff after you. I couldn't begin to list everyone who helped with the Kansasfest flux efforts, and we had multiple people who spent hours, days even, making it go down. It's still my favorite place to be, an inspiration, a warm hearth, a special thing. I hope everyone gets to have a place like that. Laughing Squid runs a great news and interest blog at https://laughingsquid.com/. Randy Suess' obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/technology/randy-suess-dead.html

On the Occasion of Chest Pains: Stent Number Three, Poor Notes in the Symphany, Arguing For Myself, Feelings, Operation, The Talking Car, In and Out, Different the Third Time Around, A Message About Support. A short side-path into getting a procedure done and what it's like when it's not a new thing anymore. Been resting and doing nicely, don't worry, and things look very good. (And not as expensive as previous procedures were.) The patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/textfiles

The Halo Outpost Discovery Episode: My Pal Kyle, Halo Doubles, A Halo Outpost, Chicago, The Idea of a Halo Convention, Mortal Kombat Side Quest, How It Was Done in Chicago, An Empty Hall, Corners and Booths and Stages, Vendors and Library, VIP Access, AR Halo, Caddyshack and the Murray Family, Goth Caddyshack, Halo Fun, Final Thoughts, You Ruined Doubles 343. This year I attended a Halo-themed convention being held at various times around the country, and now you know how it was like. I call it Halo Waypoint the whole episode because that's what the App you used to walk around was like, but Halo Output Discovery is the true and actual name. You'll get it. Halo Outpost Discovery site: https://halooutpostdiscovery.com/ Halo Outpost Twitter: https://twitter.com/halooutpost Kyle in the Quiet Place: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1157703244514091009 Halo VIP Lounge: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1157704146138599425

The RTTY Art Episode: A Word About Loss. Meeting John Sheetz. RTTYs. RTTY Artwork. The Magic of RTTY Art. Sunday Nights. Interviewing John Sheetz. Gone Before the End. Typewriter Art. A Living Room of Artwork. Overstrike and Multi-Column. Epson MX-80. A Fading Work. After John is Gone. Timeless RTTY. A Printer As Easel. I may have mentioned John Sheetz in an episode before, but I certainly didn't go into all the elements of the RTTY artwork and world he was a part of. It was nice to finally get all of that out in one place. Photos from my interview with John Sheetz. The Full Video Interview with John Sheetz. RTTY Art Made Easy by Don Royer, WA6PIR The Story of the Typewriter, 1873-1923. Marcin Winchary's incredible collection of typewriter artwork books (as well as many other type and typewriting works). The RTTY.COM collections of RTTY Art and Related History. (The Gold Standard) The TEXTFILES.COM collection of RTTY Art

The CPC Episode: Amstrad CPC Joins the Fray, A Platform Unknown to Me, The Problems CPC Had, Getting it Going, Auto-Boot, An Ugly Thing, Graphics and Sound, Isometric, Multiple Markets, Thousands of Programs, A Helpful Discord, A New Platform, Nearly the Last. Upon the event of the Amstrad CPC joining the emulation family at the Internet Archive and what that might mean. To journey among the newly added titles at the Archive, just browse from this URL: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_cpc?and%5B%5D=mediatype%3Acollection&sin=

The Server Cage Episode: An ISP Ends, But Hosting Never Stops, Don't Forget the Fiber, The Other Half, I Know How The Caged Server Beeps, The Arrangement, Dual 486, Stickers, Too Much Bandwidth, The Worst Way to Page Me, Goodbye, What We Have Lost. I'm happy to say that there are photos of the arrangement described in this episode. They're browsable here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72157653792998936

The Rubi-Con Episode: Smokey the Police Dog, Rubi-Con, Detroit Not Detroit, Off-Kilter, Duct Tape, Drunkeness, The Adult in the Room, Fire, The Raid, Another Year and Another Name, $100 Towels, What Is Destruction For, Hacker Cons, The Real Jewel. I captured the Rubi-Con site from way back then: http://cow.net/rubicon/decaffeinated/navigation.html To listen to audio from Rubi-Con 5: http://audio.textfiles.com/cons/rubicon/rubicon5/

The Internet Archive October Event Episode: Once Again Back at the Archive, Onsite, The Things We're Working On, Wikipedia Linkage, Better World Books, A Lesson On Japanese Internment, Company Culture, Six Weeks or Six Years, Unlike Anything Else, An Elephant Costume and a Hospital Visit. The 2019 October Event's livestream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az4BpuVrOhI (Things start happening around the ten minute mark)Wendy Hanamura's collected library of Japanese Incarceration is here: https://archive.org/details/digital-library-of-japanese-american-incarceration 2,500 MS-DOS games added: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games?and%5B%5D=emulator_start%3A%2Aiafix%2A&sin=&sort=-downloads