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The files on TEXTFILES.COM are maintained by somewhat arbitrary guidelines, so if a file you're looking for is not in one section, try a few others. Files are often in the "8+3" format, but since they're coming from all sorts of sources, this isn't guaranteed. Our focus is on the years 1980-1995, but files from before and after sometime sneak in. |
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100 No time to browse? Read my favorite 100 |
Adventure Walkthroughs and Hints for Text Adventures |
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Anarchy Files that YOU SHOULD NOT FOLLOW |
Apple II's Apple II Technical and Lore |
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Artwork Various ASCII Artwork/Illustrations |
BBS Running and Using Bulletin Boards |
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Computers General Computer-Related Files |
Conspiracy They're All Out To Get You |
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Drugs An unnecessary amount of Drug information |
E-Texts The Classics Meet ASCII |
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Food Food and Eating |
Fun A Weird Grab Bag of Oddness |
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Games Information Files on Home and Arcade Games |
Groups Textfile Writer Collectives |
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Hack The seamy underside of, well, Everything |
Ham Radio Ham Radio Operation Information, sort of |
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Holiday Files evoking a Holiday Spirit |
Humor Many, many attempts at being Funny |
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Internet You're Soaking In It |
Law Textfiles recounting laws or their application |
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Magazines Collections of "E-Zines", including Phrack |
Mass Media Television and Movie Minutae |
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Messages Samples of message bases from different BBSs |
Music Files about Music or for Musicians |
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News Often poorly transcribed News Stories |
Occult Textfiles dealing with alternate religions |
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Phreak Files about, from, and against the Phone Company. |
Piracy All Hail the Warez |
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Politics Files of a Political Nature |
Programming All of the Deep Geek Stuff |
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School Reports Sheets for the Cheats |
Role Playing Games Act Like Someone Else For Fun |
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Sex and Sexuality Files about trying to Make More of You |
Science Fiction Science Fiction reviews and lists |
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Stories BBS User-Written Fiction |
Survival Be Suspicious, Be Worried, Be Prepared |
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UFO Files indicating We Are Not Alone, or that We Are |
Uploads The Textfiles of Today |
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Viruses Computer Viruses, Trojan Horses, and Worms |
Many people want to download an entire directory and sift through it on their own time. To assist this research, most of the directories have a file at the end that is an archive of that entire directory. It is compressed as well, so it takes less time than downloading the files one by one. Please feel free to download that way.
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