Jason Scott

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Jason Scott Sadofsky

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Alma materEmerson College
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Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970) is an American archivist, historian of technology, filmmaker, performer, and actor. Scott has been known by the online pseudonyms Sketch, SketchCow, Sketch The Cow, The Slipped Disk,[1] and textfiles. He has been called "the figurehead of the digital archiving world".[2]

Scott is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems. He is the creator of a 2005 documentary film about BBSes, BBS: The Documentary,[3] and a 2010 documentary film about interactive fiction, GET LAMP.[4][5]

Scott lives in New York state. He was the co-owner of the late Twitter celebrity cat Sockington. He works for the Internet Archive and has given numerous presentations at technology related conferences on the topics of digital history, software, and website preservation.[citation needed]

Early life

Jason Scott Sadofsky[6]Template:R/superscript graduated from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York, and served on the staff of the school newspaper under the title "Humor Staff". While in high school he produced the humor magazine Esnesnon ("nonsense" backwards).[7] He later graduated from Emerson College in 1992 with a film degree.[8] While at Emerson, he worked for the school humor magazine, school newspaper, WERS 88.9 FM radio, and served as art director on several dramatic plays.[citation needed]

Career

After graduating from Emerson, Scott lived in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was employed as a temp worker while also drawing caricatures for pay on the streets of Cambridge.[9]

In 1990, Scott co-created TinyTIM, a popular MUSH that he ran for ten years.[10] In 1995, Jason joined the video game company Psygnosis as a technical support worker, before being hired by a video game startup, Focus Studios, as an art director. After Focus Studios' closure, Jason moved into UNIX administration,[11] where he remained until 2009.

He has been a speaker at DEF CON, an annual hacker conference, the first time at the 7th conference in 1999, and has spoken there almost every year since then. Scott also spoke at PhreakNIC 6 and 9, Rubi Cons 4 and 5, the 5th H.O.P.E. conference in 2004, Notacons 1, 2 (as a backup), 3 and 4, Toorcon 7, and beta premiered his documentary at the 7th annual Vintage Computer Festival. Most of his talks focus on the capturing of digital history or consist of narratives of stories relevant to his experiences online.[12]

In 2006, Scott announced that he was starting a documentary on video arcades, titled ARCADE.[13] Although he did not complete the project, all of the footage he shot for ARCADE has been made available on the Internet Archive.[14][15]

In 2007, he co-founded Blockparty, a North American demoparty.[16] For their inaugural year, they paired up with Notacon which takes place annually in Cleveland, Ohio. This collaborative effort allowed the fledgling party to utilize the existing support structure of an established conference.

In January 2009, he formed "Archive Team,"[17][18] a group dedicated to preserving the historical record of websites that close down.[19] Responding[20] to the announcement by AOL of the closure of AOL Hometown, the team announced[21] plans to save[22] Podango and GeoCities.[citation needed]

In October 2009, he started raising funds for a year-long sabbatical from his job as a computer systems administrator, to pursue technology history and archival projects full-time. By November 2009, he had reached his funding goals, with the support of over 300 patrons.[23]

In early 2011, he was involved in Yahoo! Video and Google Video archive projects.[24][25][26]

Scott announced the creation of Archive Corps, a volunteer effort to preserve physical archives, in 2015.[27][28]

Scott has been hosting his own podcast called Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It since 2017.[29]

Scott is the software curator at the Internet Archive.[30] In April 2019, he uploaded all of the source code for Infocom's text-based adventure games and interactive fiction, including Zork and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, to GitHub.[31][32]

Sockington

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Scott's cat, Sockington

Sockington was a domestic cat who lived in Waltham, Massachusetts. He gained large-scale fame via the social networking site Twitter. Scott regularly posted from Sockington's Twitter account from late 2007.[33] As of January 2018, Sockington's account has over 1.4 million followers, many of which are pet accounts themselves.[33][34] Sockington died on July 18, 2022.[35]

Acting

Scott is a frequent collaborator of Johannes Grenzfurthner and appeared as an actor in Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: Sector 2 (2009), Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018), and the science fiction comedy Je Suis Auto (2019).[citation needed]

Personal life

Divorced,[6] Scott was engaged as of 2017.[36]

Filmography

Citations

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Scott, Jason (July 31, 2010). "DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles". YouTube. Event occurs at 35:24. Archived from the original on March 24, 2023. A long time ago, I was The Slipped Disk.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jason Scott: Past (Digital) Lives". FM4. ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Network). Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BBS: The Documentary". Bbsdocumentary.com. Archived from the original on January 6, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gagne, Ken (July 26, 2010). "The Grill: Jason Scott". Computerworld. IDG. Archived from the original on November 23, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
  5. ^ Get Lamp
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schwartz, Matt; Talmadge, Eva (December 20, 2011). "Fire in the Library". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Issue #1 of Esnesnon". 1987. Retrieved January 13, 2012.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BBS: A Documentary: The Pitch".
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Life and Times of Jason Scott". Cow.net. September 13, 1970. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ASCII by Jason Scott / About Jason Scott". ascii.textfiles.com. December 11, 2008. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jason Works for a Living". Cow.net. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."T E X T F I L E S". Audio.textfiles.com. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Arcade: A Documentary". Arcadedocumentary.com. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Update 56: End. · The Jason Scott Documentary Three Pack". Kickstarter. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ARCADE Documentary Footage and Interview Archives : Free Movies : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive". archive.org. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  16. ^ Blockparty
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."archiveteam.org". archiveteam.org. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Herrman, John (November 29, 2018). "It's Almost 2019. Do You Know Where Your Photos Are?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Schwartz, Matt. "Fire in the Library". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse". Ascii.textfiles.com. December 21, 2008. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ASCII by Jason Scott / Datapocalypso!". Ascii.textfiles.com. January 18, 2009. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ASCII by Jason Scott / Geocities: Why Hello, Everybody". Ascii.textfiles.com. August 18, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Jason Scott Sabbatical". Kickstarter. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  24. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Archive Team Is Trying To Download Google Video Before It Shuts Down". Laughing Squid. April 18, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Yahoo! Video - Archiveteam". www.archiveteam.org. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  26. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Google Video - Archiveteam". www.archiveteam.org. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  27. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Archive Corps, A Volunteer Collective To Help Quickly Save Physical Archives Before They Are Lost". Laughing Squid. August 24, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  28. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Welcome to Archive Corps!". www.archivecorps.org. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  29. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It : Free Audio : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive". archive.org. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  30. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Download & Streaming : The Internet Archive Software Collection : Internet Archive". archive.org. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  31. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."historicalsource - Overview". GitHub. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  32. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Carpenter, Nicole; Maiberg, Emanuel (April 18, 2019). "Long Lost 'Zork' Source Code Uploaded to GitHub, But Few People Understand It". Motherboard. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  33. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Twitter followers paw over feline". TODAY. Archived from the original on July 9, 2009. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
  34. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Twitter forcing a strategy switch for businesses". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
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  36. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Koebler, Jason (May 3, 2017). "Jason Scott Is Archiving CD-ROMs and Floppy Discs From Closets Around the World". Vice Motherboard. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
  37. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Chan, Casey (August 9, 2013). "DEFCON: A Documentary About the World's Largest Hacking Conference". Gizmodo. Retrieved May 12, 2018.

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