Jason Scott

This article is about the archivist. For other uses, see Jason Scott (disambiguation).

Jason Scott
Scott in 2017
Born
Jason Scott Sadofsky

(1970-09-13) September 13, 1970 (age 54)
Hopewell Junction, New York, U.S.
Alma materEmerson College
OccupationArchivist
Known forArchivist and historian of technology, performer, internet personality

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]

  1. ^ 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. ^ "Jason Scott: Past (Digital) Lives". FM4. ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Network). Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  3. ^ "BBS: The Documentary". Bbsdocumentary.com. Archived from the original on January 6, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  4. ^ 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