What is "textfiles.com"

textfiles.com is a web site run by Jason Scott dedicated to preserving the digital documents that contain the history of the BBS world and various subcultures. The site categorises and stores thousands of ASCII files. It focuses on text files from the 1980s, but also contains some older files and some that were created well into the 1990s.

The site went online in 1998. According to Scott, the site had approximately 150,000 unique visitors per month as of 2004. An updated file count was last posted on July 1, 2005; at that time, the number of files archived by the site was 58,227.