It was natural that groups of close friends, working together to write textfiles on whatever subjects they considered their own, would start considering themselves a sort of rock and roll band, or maybe a gang. To this end, Textfile "Groups" starting making appearances early in the 1980's, and of course it's gotten completely out of hand.
Some groups had members that never actually met each other; they did all their work online and might be many many miles apart, or even in different countries. Some groups were open to anyone who wanted to be a member, and some were finite and refused to expand or contract. And then there's the cDc.
| Filename |
Size |
Description of the Textfile |
| 9X | 9X | |
| ANARCHYINC | Anarchy Incorporated | |
| BANANAREPUBLIC | The Banana Republic BBS Collection (From New Zealand) | |
| BAR | The Bad Ass Retards | |
| BLACKCIRCLE | Black Circle Productions | |
| BUZZ | The Buzz Brothers | |
| CDC | The Cult of the Dead Cow Library | |
| CHINA | The CHiNA Colleciton | |
| DAMAGEINC | Damage, Incorporated | |
| FISH | Folks In Santa Hats | |
| METALCOMMUNICATIONS | Neon Knights and Metal Communications | |
| OCTOTHORPE | Octothorpe Productions, the official Works BBS Group | |
| OMNIPOTENT | Omnipotent, Inc. | |
| PHAIT | Phreaks, Hackers and Anarchists Instigating Turmoil | |
| PHONELOSERS | The Phone Losers of America | |
| PPH | The Phido Phreaks | |
| PPP | Phucked Phreak Productions | |
| SHAWN | Shawn Da Lay Boy Productions | |
| TWAT | The Winner ANSI Team | |
| VIDEOVINDICATOR | The Works of the Video Vindicator | |
| ZAN | Zhit Access Nation | |
| There are 21 directories. |
If you wish to have the entire directory conveniently archived and compressed into one file, please download either groups.tar.gz (5997902 bytes) or groups.zip (6854272 bytes) instead of all the files separately.