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Jason Scott started TEXTFILES.COM in 1998 to preserve BBS-era text files he had collected in his youth. The project grew into a huge archive of computer culture built around a simple idea: copies survive.
Gaby.de preserves a German CP/M and computer-history archive with software, manuals, Digital Research material, Z80 resources, the ZNODE51 BBS collection, Windows 3.1x downloads, and a virtual computer museum.
Mewbies' Fun on the Terminal page catalogs public Telnet oddities: ASCII Star Wars, BOFH excuses, Telehack, MUDs, MUCKs, games, and enough command-line instructions to get a curious user into systems most of the modern Web forgot.
Ansilove began as one artist’s converter for old ANSI and ASCII scene files, then grew into a preservation toolkit for rendering BBS-era art on modern systems.
ACiD Productions began as ANSI Creators in Demand in 1990, carried BBS-era text art onto the web, and turned acid.org into a durable home for a scene built from ANSI, ASCII, music, code, and digital graphics.
RetroArchive preserves old software collections, manuals and CD-ROM file libraries, including hundreds of RemoteAccess BBS utilities with original filenames, dates and descriptions from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
A humor page last modified in 2001 preserves engineer jokes, Unix-era one-liners, a Windows NT error message, BBS material and broken BOFH links as a tiny fossil of technical culture.