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tuesday, april 13, 2004
browsing the collective unconscious

what kind of .txt files do people share on a p2p network? is there anything interesting to read? i imagined some secret bbs-like thing going on, people exchanging crazy files…or maybe just a bunch of readmes and software cracks.

i fired up my faithful accomplice and found out. i searched for “txt” a few times and i had a sample of 853 things. good enough.

this is what i found:

a list of the files i found

and a whole lot of files with mysterious and weird names. i downloaded a couple dozen of the promising ones.

3x5.txt
guitar tabs for some inane song i’ve never heard of.
about crack.txt
installing a crack for macvcd. i have no idea what macvcd is. i figured this was about the drug.
alexthelooney@hotmail.com.txt
a chat log, in french. who the hell shares their chat logs? poor alex.
BarcodeFont.txt
a readme in german and english for a donation-ware font. i wonder what the font looks like.
Get every song you want here!.txt
awww, it just advertises a midi site.
heavy elephants.txt
a spoiler for some game with Greek and Norse soldiers.
hieracosphinx.txt
a quote from Oedipus Rex.
Kniting Text.txt
exactly what it says. enthusiastic basic information on knitting.
TXT.rtf
information about itunes in what appears to be dutch.
Wasabi_Overview.txt
about the app skinner, not the food.
YEAR2000.txt
also exactly what it says. things to know about the year 2000.

i could start a whole weblog of weird text files found on acquisition. maybe i will.

comments (2)

you think that a crack for a program is a drug? poor idiot...
dirtyrado on 4/19/2004 12:16:19

haha, you misread my post like i misread the file. unlike you, i realized my mistake before publishing it.
britta on 4/19/2004 21:17:09

comments are off. for new comments, my email address is brittag@gmail.com.

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