Dad wrote opaque, elliptical, experimental works of enormous profanity… The upshot was 70 years of writing on crumbling yellow onionskin, dot-matrix prints with the tractor feeds still attached, and bright white laser output, along with more than 10,000 ancient WordPerfect files and blog entries, including many repeats. Now all mine to archive.
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After I parsed and processed and batched his digital legacy, it came to 7,382 files and around 7 gigabytes.
The sum of Frank took two days and nights to upload to the Internet Archive
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In time, we all end up in a folder somewhere, if we’re lucky. Frank belongs to the world now; I released the files under Creative Commons 0, No Rights Reserved. And I know he would have loved his archive.
Visit Frank on the Internet Archive.