Help us realize OUR dream.

What is that dream? In short, to offer the best and most complete archive encompassing the artscene that is possible.

To do that takes work. It requires everyone to dig out their old hard drive when they used to run a BBS and see what's
missing on our site.

Some history about the 'scene and the internet ..

Several years ago the ACiD Artpacks Archive established itself as the place for artpacks on the 'net. At certain times it
was the only place, but most importantly it's still here. Solid as a rock.

But what about before there was a /pub/artpacks directory created at Walnut Creek CD-ROM. What about before the
web enabled artpacks.acid.org?

The first internet site that I can remember that served a purpose for the art scene was Brian Morin (SIDS) 's DEADBABY
ftp site. Ithink we can all agree this was the first site created for the sole purpose of the art scene itself. (If not, email me
and we'll discuss it :-) And of course there has been the telnet'able version of Halaster's very own The Regency BBS.
Did you know that a chunk of our archive originates from The Regenecy BBS as well as several other prominent boards
from the days of BBSing? Another site is Ross' Disembodied Voices which started was (and still is) a huge BBS in
New York which made the attempt of making a website simulate the look and feel of a real BBS. DV also hosted an
FTP site as well, and was the first site on the internet to have groups claim affiliations with it. (Something I'm thinking
about doing for artpacks.acid.org, maybe.)

Well that's it really. Three sites that I think are worth mentioning. I've neglected (for now) to tell the story of /pub/demos/ansi on
Hornet's territory, as well as the ansi directory on wustl.edu for the fact that neither of these sites were created by what I would call
members of the artscene, nor were they (to an extent) for the artscene. Also I've inentionally left out the numerous fly-by-night
BBSes that were telnet accessible for five hours or you had to join an IRC channel to get the latest dynamic IP address. :) If LV
was ever up, I probably would have included that in the list, but it's not really history, it's more in the present anyways. :) If by
chance you think I've blindly left something out that helped our presence on the net, by all means please let me know.

Now, back to reality ..

Our mission and goal is to present the world with the most complete artpack collection the scene has to offer. To achieve
this task, everyone must come together and take a look at what they have vs. our all files list. We estimate there
are ~ 150 artpacks and emags which we are missing throughout 1993-1997.

Quite often, we receive requests for certain files that we don't have online. If you notice you have some of these golden
oldies lying on your hard drive, please email us to arrange to upload them to our site!

This is a working list in progress. If you'd like to request something, email us.