Founded in 1998, textfiles.com is considered the premier source of BBS-era textfiles, ranging from the hilarious to almost but not quite hilarious. Google, also founded in 1998, is considered to have done a lot more with the same amount of time.

"It's a perfect fit," said Jason Scott, organizer and head librarian of textfiles.com. "I get a staff of 20 underneath me to sort through all this crap, and Google finally gets their hands on the remaining pile of text they haven't yet indexed." Mr. Scott did not indicate if he was going to move to California to complete the deal or if he was going to make good on his oft-repeated plot to overthrow the principality of Sealand.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google and just the kind of guys who wouldn't sue the DNA out of someone pulling a prank, said "We remember the days of 2400 baud and never having enough warez to get a good ratio; our partnership with textfiles.com ensures that we will have amazing scene cred for between 10-20 minutes before we ruin the whole site with advertising."

The question of advertising on textfiles.com has been one of great debate, considering it doesn't have any and that's friggin' nuts. With the addition of text ads, the site should go from losing money hand over first to making millions. "Besides," said Scott, "They're TEXT ADS. How the hell will you even notice they're there?"

Google's stock price briefly raised upon the news of the merger, then floated quickly back to the norm, indicating a general market reaction of "meh".