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THE BBS YEARS 
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TEXTFILES 
10 YEARS 
 
THE 10 YEARS OF TEXTFILES
In which a general welcome is extended, and the ground rules are laid out

Welcome to the textfiles.com tenth anniversary celebration section, a collection of artifacts, essays and links composed for the textfiles.com family of sites by its creator, Jason Scott.

In October of 1998, this website was created, and for the last decade has provided history, nostalgia, reference, controversy, hilarity, and enjoyment for millions of users around the world. As we round this important milestone, I thought it a fun idea to look back on the beginnings of the site, history and trivia of both it and the era it was meant to capture, and a tour of some of the more interesting bumps and heights along the way.

The sections on the menu to the left can be clicked to directly, or you can follow section by section through all of them as one large tour and essay.

Thanks for the memories.

- Jason Scott
TEXTFILES.COM

Now, let's see see where it all began....