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Experimental website to browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org
Cookies & Tracking
This site has no cookies and no tracking and only errors are logged.
Stats
686,707,203 files
from 25,645 items,
totaling 45.5 TB
- image: 293,133,684
- text: 175,855,999
- unknown: 86,966,650
- other: 46,135,918
- directory: 44,888,498
- executable: 22,805,939
- archive: 22,776,840
- audio: 17,661,126
- document: 12,004,769
- poly: 2,971,227
- font: 2,864,412
- video: 2,085,117
- music: 1,445,522
Converted or identified 87% of files encountered.
pages have been served! 
searches have been performed!
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
Known Issues
- Mac Emulation: Not all filenames are translated correctly
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