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T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M
Thanks to everyone for letting me do this full-time .
On the face of things, we seem to be merely talking about text-based files,
containing only the letters of the English Alphabet (and the occasional
punctuation mark).
On deeper inspection, of course, this isn't quite the case. What this site
offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the
128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange
(ASCII) allowed them. 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.
