The files on TEXTFILES.COM are maintained by somewhat arbitrary guidelines, so if a file you're looking for is not in one section, try a few others. Files are often in the "8+3" format, but since they're coming from all sorts of sources, this isn't guaranteed. Our focus is on the years 1980-1995, but files from before and after sometime sneak in.

100 No time to browse? Read my favorite 100	Adventure Walkthroughs and Hints for Text Adventures
Anarchy Files that YOU SHOULD NOT FOLLOW	Apple II's Apple II Technical and Lore
Artwork Various ASCII Artwork/Illustrations	BBS Running and Using Bulletin Boards
Computers General Computer-Related Files	Conspiracy They're All Out To Get You
Drugs An unnecessary amount of Drug information	E-Texts The Classics Meet ASCII
Food Food and Eating	Fun A Weird Grab Bag of Oddness
Games Information Files on Home and Arcade Games	Groups Textfile Writer Collectives
Hack The seamy underside of, well, Everything	Ham Radio Ham Radio Operation Information, sort of
Holiday Files evoking a Holiday Spirit	Humor Many, many attempts at being Funny
Internet You're Soaking In It	Law Textfiles recounting laws or their application
Magazines Collections of "E-Zines", including Phrack	Mass Media Television and Movie Minutae
Messages Samples of message bases from different BBSs	Music Files about Music or for Musicians
News Often poorly transcribed News Stories	Occult Textfiles dealing with alternate religions
Phreak Files about, from, and against the Phone Company.	Piracy All Hail the Warez
Politics Files of a Political Nature	Programming All of the Deep Geek Stuff
School Reports Sheets for the Cheats	Role Playing Games Act Like Someone Else For Fun
Science And not quite Science	Null Section Originally "Sex", but I'mma keep this Christian as fuck
Science Fiction Science Fiction reviews and lists	Stories BBS User-Written Fiction
Survival Be Suspicious, Be Worried, Be Prepared	UFO Files indicating We Are Not Alone, or that We Are
Uploads The Textfiles of Today	Viruses Computer Viruses, Trojan Horses, and Worms

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