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2 Jul, 13 tweets, 4 min read

DON'T PANIC EVERYONE help is on the way I GOT YOU

This is gonna be close

Tape has notable jitter and degredation probably due to the nuclear armageddon of 2001. I'll do my best and then pass it to forensic experts.

HELP HAS ARRIVED

@ComputerHistory

Bob Cringely at the original @ComputerHistory Visible Storage setup, with additional arty lights!

This is the first and last time Cringely nailed a total Glow-up

Welcome John Archer of the PCY2000 Alliance, home of the greatest shirts and shiniest of heads. Linkedin Photo included.

A good time to mention this tape was given away for free and so it is reproduced on the absolute flimsiest of VHS tapes, so it's a miracle it's functional at all after 20 years.

Jeanne Sheldon retired last year.

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Jason Scott

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4 Jul

Audacity and it's super-nice-except-fuck-you-dude project leader seem to be getting ahead of schedule on the ruination.

Your personal data collected goes to Russia? Check.

A sound editing app that children should not touch until the magic age of 12, demolishing it as a teaching tool or inexpensive introduction to editing for young ones, in service of the terrible things it intends to do with data? Check.

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Jason Scott

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3 Jul

1992: I have graduated from college! The world of potential is infinite!

2021: I just figured out there were only 16 episodes of Hong Kong Phooey

Whoops, this is taking off.

Hong Kong Phooey also appeared in the Laff-A-Lympics series, and probably got shoved in sideways through a bunch of Hanna-Barbera licensing and appearances. Here he is as late is 2017, in a Boomerang series, voiced by Phil LaMarr:

Laff-A-Lympics is 24 episodes, so since Hong Kong Phooey is all up in that (voiced by the same actor, Scatman Crothers), it's possible many tiny child brains combined it all into one big blob and so there's a lot of HK in memories.

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

3 Jul

The website is gone now. But the Archive has got you.

web.archive.org/web/*/www.micr…

This package is lacking the CD-ROM.

But of course the Internet Archive isn't.

archive.org/details/Micros…

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

2 Jul

https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/1410583468292165636

Archive Team, would you kindly completely archive scripting.com, leaving some air holes on the top

https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/1410583468292165636

Be sure to save all the classics.

scripting.com/2013/08/19/why…

Some of the classics couldn't be saved, of course, because the Wayback machine was blocked for a decade. Explicitly.

web.archive.org/web/2001102420…

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

7 Jun

https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1401978575054684175

Do it

Study Texas

REALLY STUDY TEXAS

https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1401978575054684175

Imagine writing a history essay that so drives people into anger, they decide to angrily make their OWN history book with the stated purpose (the quiet part out loud) to have it going around declaring all the parts your history essay mentioned that it doesn't agree with.

And it's always there, in your essay, because you know how this will be written: "Unlike as mentioned in OTHER essays, in fact that didn't happen" (meanwhile, pictures and writing everywhere that it happened). "The OTHER essay's mistake about this date is this" (gives wrong date)

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