ASCII by Jason Scott
58 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 8 comments
https://web.archive.org/web/20260501220231/https://ascii.tex...

embedding-shape 2 hours ago
> Just a little over ten years ago [...] a collection of 13,000 manuals now lives on the Internet Archive

That's a crazy amount of time, with a nice amount of manuals now publicly available, about ~3.5 manuals PER DAY, for a decade! Few people are as dedicated as Jason Scott when it comes to making sure information stays free and available, thank you a lot for what you, Archive Team and Internet Archive is doing for all of us!

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zozbot234 2 hours ago
> a collection of 13,000 manuals now lives on the Internet Archive

Why are we even doing this? This is just humanity giving free extra training to its future robot overlords. /s

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qingcharles 57 minutes ago
Hopefully they'll be able to write better manuals.
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xipho 34 minutes ago
He's streaming live "right now". https://www.twitch.tv/textfiles
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bityard 2 hours ago
Jason Scott is one of the good guys.
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ethagnawl 52 minutes ago
Indeed.

His podcast, _Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It_, is an entertaining, informative and (often) touching listen, too.

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crtasm 3 hours ago
Latest post: Manuals Plus: The Wrap-Up — May 10, 2026
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EarlKing 46 minutes ago
We'll have to take your word on that since it looks like it's being hugged to death. I can't even get an archive of it to take the pressure off.
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