Meet Jason Scott – the guy who is literally an Internet historian. Apparently, what started out as a hobby, as a result of his own involvement with the BBS world, later became a full-time job as he managed to raise $25,000 on Kickstarter. The calling of his life is basically to collect as much (preferably obscure) information as he can for the future, both digital and physical. Text files. Cracktros. Shareware CDs. Floppy disks. Old issues of 2600 magazine with hardware projects that that came with the magazine at the time. He know has a container full of old goods, which, as he puts it, he doesn’t own, but is only preserving for the future.

So this post will just link to his sites. I’ll leave it to you, the reader, to explore his works. I actually haven’t explored most of his sites yet, so this post is in part a reminder to myself.

I only found out about Jason today when watching his Defcon 18 presentation (part 1 2 3 4) called “You’re stealing it wrong – 30 years of inter-pirate battles”. It’s the story of how the piracy scene has evolved over the years, all the way from when IBM sold hardware and software as a bundle, to the days of Apple ][ cracking, BBSs sharing scanned images from Playboy, all the way to the internal politics of today's scene. It contains equal parts nostalgia and humor. (BTW, the videos were uploaded by ChRiStIaAn008 who's uploading talks from various security conferences. Highly recommended despite the ghawd-awful background image.)

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These sites of his are listed at the end of his presentation:
bbsdocumentary.com is the website of Jason’s documentary about the BBS world.
textfiles.com contains various text files from BBSs and other places, sorted in 40 categories. Puts my own Gameboy file archive, that I’ve hardly started working on, to shame.
cd.textfiles.com contains a shit tonne of shareware CDs from the 90s for those may be interested.
getlamp.com is not a site where you can get a LAMP stack; rather, the name alludes to old text based games such as Zork, and Get Lamp is the name of a documentary about those. (Side note: For my Swedish reader, I recommend the classic text-based game Stugan!)
Archiveteam is a site dedicated to mirroring content.
Geociti.es is an effort to mirror as much as possible of Geocities after it was shut down.
Sockington is one of Jason’s two cats.
Welcome to Internet! A hearty welcome (cordial reception) , in case this is your first day online.

Quoting Martin Korth: “And you? Given the ability of free choice, full control over your mind and body, where would you click?”

The So Damn Loud Show April 2008

Tracklist:

01 - The Bulgarian – Crass Shuffle
02 - Hatiras – Green Frisbees (Beam Me Up Mix)
03 - Mr. Elastik – Justice (Nine Lives The Cat Remix)
04 - Stupid Fresh – Stretch The Canvas feat. Lo-Fi & Lee ‘Call Of The’ Crowther
05 - Sinden & Count Of Monte Cristal – Beeper (A-Trak Remix)
06 - Boys Noize – My Head (Para One Remix)
07 - Bryan Cox – Let’s Go To Work (Pette Vaydex Remix)
08 - The Touch – Maximization Nation (Trevor Loveys Remix)
09 - Slyde – Vibrate To This (Trouble Soup!! Remix)
10 - Stupid Fresh – Get The Fuck Up
11 - STA – In Living Colour (D.I.M. Remix)
12 - The Ghost Frequency – Nightmare (Speaker Junk’s Unleash The Beast Remix)
13 - Bryan Cox – Where You At
14 - Fagget Fairys – Samo Ti (AC Slater Remix)
15 - Maral Salmassi – Fire Gem (Fukkk Offf Remix)
16 - Proxy – Decoy
17 - Robyn – Handle Me (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix)
18 - Sami Saari – The Punch
19 - MSTRKRFT – VUVUVU
20 - SymbolOne – Love Juice (Moulinex Remix)

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Tracklist:

01 - Hijack - Shimmy
02 - DJ Fame - Anutha Day In The Ghetto (The Bulgarian Remix)
03 - The Bulgarian - Lovely Bounce (Vukasin Re-Edit)
04 - Larry Tee - I Love You (The Bulgarian Remix)
05 - Man Eat DJ & Jizm - Need It
06 - Geoff K - Mary Go Round (The Bulgarian’s Revolving Remix)
07 - Mark Stent - In The Kitchen (The Bulgarian’s Lightning Mix)
08 - Andy George - Big Dipper (Hijack Remix)
09 - The Bulgarian Feat. Spoek - Jack It Like A Zombie (Santiago & Bushido Remix)
10 - Poxymusic Feat. Gina Mitchell – War Paint (Speaker Junk Remix)
11 - The Crookers - My Penny
12 - ATFC - Mothership (Bart B More Remix)
13 - The Loose Cannons - WHYD4ML (Space Cowboy Remix)
14 - Moulinex - Leisure Suit
15 - Kissy Sell Out - Gonna Make You Mine (Kissy’s Ghetto Fabulous Remix)
16 - Bag Raiders - Nil By Mouth (Knightlife Remix)
17 - Splitloop - Electricity
18 - Harris Robotis - Go! (Knightlife Remix)
19 - Rektchordz - Turn These Speakers Up
20 - Turboweekend - My Name Is Legion (Krazy Fiesta Remix)

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The So Damn Loud Show February 2008

Tracklist:

01 - Steve Roach – Between The Grey And The Purple
02 - Santiago & Bushido – For What (The Bulgarian Remix)
03 - Christian Hoff – Jive Bomb
04 - Justin Harris – Defbrows (Jacob London’s Cream On Your Face Mix)
05 - The Loose Cannons – WHYD4ML (Stupid Fresh Remix)
06 - D.I.M – Is You (Les Petits Pilous Remix)
07 - Robyn – Be Mine (Ocelot Mthrfckrs Remix)
08 - Culture Shock – Asteroids
09 - The Bulgarian – Listen Man (Original Mix)
10 - Das Pop – Fool For Love (Yuksek Remix)
11 - Napt – The Rollers (Feat. Skibadee)
12 - Muscles – Sweaty (Shazam Remix)
13 - Chromeo – Bonafied Lovin’ (Yuksek Remix)
14 - Kim – Wet ‘N Wild (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)
15 - Kim – Fistogram
16 - Altern-8 – Armageddon (Cosmo Remix)
17 - Man & Man – Kids (Fckn Crew Remix)
18 - Dilemn – Ghetto Town
19 - Blende – Peaches
20 - Spencer Parker – Open Your Eyes (Surkin Remix)
21 - Danger – 11h30 (DatA Remix)

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