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Warez database for texts. Run by [[Sebastian Lütgert]]/ROLUX since [[2001]] with the slogan »we are the & in copy & paste«.  
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'''Textz.com''' is a warez database for texts. Its first iteration was run by [[Sebastian Lütgert]]/ROLUX from [[2001]] with the slogan »we are the & in copy & paste«. The website has been relaunched on 22 March 2020.
  
One could find text with and without copyright, fictional and theoretical texts, manifestos, articles and song texts. Texts by Theodor W. Adorno side by side with texts by the autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-Gruppe, Douglas Adams appeared next to Klaus Theweleit and Kathy Acker. The texts are coming from various sources. They were either submitted by the authors themselves, supplied to the textz.com database by various online collaborators as freely circulating texts on the Net, or they were scanned in from printed media page by page, processed via a text recognition program, and transformed into ASCII files.
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In the earlier version, one could find text with and without copyright, fictional and theoretical texts, manifestos, articles and song lyrics. Texts by [[Theodor W. Adorno]] side by side with texts by the autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-Gruppe, Douglas Adams appeared next to [[Klaus Theweleit]] and [[Kathy Acker]]. The texts originated from various sources. They were submitted by authors themselves, supplied to the textz.com database by various online collaborators as freely circulating texts on the Net, or were scanned in from printed media page by page, processed via a text recognition program, and transformed into ASCII files.
  
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; Literature
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* Daniel Snelson, [https://monoskop.org/images/8/8c/Snelson_Daniel_Variable_Format_Media_Poetics_and_the_Little_Database_2015.pdf#page=31 "Textwarez: The Executable Files of Textz.com"], ch 1 in Snelson, ''Variable Format: Media Poetics and the Little Database'', University of Pennsylvania, 2015, pp 25-58. PhD dissertation. [https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3722240/]
  
http://web.archive.org/web/20060411064533/http://www.textz.com/<br>
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http://www.textz.com/adorno/readme.html
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* https://textz.com/
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* http://web.archive.org/web/20060411064533/http://www.textz.com/
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* http://web.archive.org/web/20080419023957/http://textz.com/adorno/readme.html
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* http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0402/msg00082.html
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* http://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/28/textz-com/
  
 
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[[Series:Net culture]] [[Series:Shadow libraries]] [[Series:File sharing]]
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Latest revision as of 15:14, 15 April 2024

Textz.com is a warez database for texts. Its first iteration was run by Sebastian Lütgert/ROLUX from 2001 with the slogan »we are the & in copy & paste«. The website has been relaunched on 22 March 2020.

In the earlier version, one could find text with and without copyright, fictional and theoretical texts, manifestos, articles and song lyrics. Texts by Theodor W. Adorno side by side with texts by the autonome a.f.r.i.k.a.-Gruppe, Douglas Adams appeared next to Klaus Theweleit and Kathy Acker. The texts originated from various sources. They were submitted by authors themselves, supplied to the textz.com database by various online collaborators as freely circulating texts on the Net, or were scanned in from printed media page by page, processed via a text recognition program, and transformed into ASCII files.

Literature
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