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Experimental website to browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org

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Cookies & Tracking
This site has no cookies and no tracking and only errors and hit/search counts are logged.

Stats
1,868,552,782 files from 43,420 items, totaling 125.2 TB (server is 95% full)

image: 755,347,247
text: 515,399,946
unknown: 261,878,362
directory: 137,804,109
other: 133,492,425
executable: 52,795,096
archive: 51,919,004
audio: 48,039,206
document: 26,694,800
poly: 9,715,359
font: 6,038,018
video: 4,711,775
music: 2,521,544

Converted or identified 85% of files encountered.

CSS & JavaScript
CSS, JavaScript and HTTPS are not required. This site works in text and vintage browsers.
In modern browsers, enabling some things provides new features:

JavaScript:
- Adjust image/video scale/zoom
- Adjust video playback speed
- View text files in different encodings
- Interact with poly 3D models
- Press left/right arrow to view previous/next file
- View ANSI art animations
JavaScript & sessionStorage: Persist image/video scale/zoom
JavaScript & HTTPS: Open files in a Mac/PC emulator, play SWF files

FAQ

Where do these files come from?: They were uploaded to archive.org by thousands of different users.
Think of this site as a partial mirror of select archive.org items, extracted and presented with a different interface.
How do I contact the site operator?: sysop@textfiles.com
Where is XYZ content?: Not all data from archive.org is here. This site focuses on vintage media (image/audio/video) and shareware.
Why does this site look ugly?: It uses very few HTML tags for compatibility with vintage/text browsers and fast loading. It's also a bit of a style choice.
Why didn't file XYZ convert?: This site uses dexvert to identify & convert files. It doesn't always get it right. Goal is to handle ~90% of files.
Some text files are all gibberish characters?: Try a different 'Encoding' from the dropdown or click to download the file and view it locally.
I can't scroll documents on iOS?: iOS Safari is horrible with PDFs in IFRAMEs. Click on the (.pdf) link at top to view the PDF directly.
In my vintage browser I don't see some images/videos/text?: Files are encoded as PNG/SVG, MP4, MP3 and UTF8. Older browsers don't support all those formats.
Why does the image page access sessionStorage?: The "scale persist" feature uses sessionStorage to save/load the scale. This stays on your computer and vanishes on tab close.
Why are some files missing?: Some files are removed for various reasons.

Browser Compatibility

Best: Firefox
Chromium Based
Safari
Good (Lacks AUDIO/VIDEO/PDF/IFRAME): AWeb
Chameleon
IBrowse 2.5+
Internet Explorer 4.0+ (Windows)
Internet Explorer 5.0+ (Mac)
Links
Lynx
Netscape Communicator 4.0+
Mediocre (Lacks above and PNG/UTF8): Internet Explorer 4.0 (Mac)
Netscape Navigator 2.0 - 3.0
Opera 3.62
Poor (Lacks above and   and STYLE/SCRIPT content shows on page): Netscape Navigator 1.0
Abysmal (Lacks above and some URLs break): Internet Explorer 1.0 - 2.0
NCSA MOSAIC 1.0

Credits & Thanks

What	Thanks To
All Items	archive.org
Search	Elasticsearch
OCR	doctr
Transcription	whisperS2T
NSFW detection	opennsfw2
Visual Search	CLIP-ViT-L-14-laion2B-s32B-b82K
Auditory Search	larger_clap_general
Mac emulation	infinite-mac
PC emulation	DosWasmX
SWF/flash emulation	Ruffle
ANSI animation	ansilove.js
3D poly viewer	<model-viewer>
Back-End Tech	dexvert \| sparkey \| deno \| nginx \| SQLite \| resvg \| FFmpeg \| ImageMagick

Known Issues

Mac Emulation: Not all filenames are translated correctly