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			{{Short description\|American technology historian and archivist (born 1970)}}
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			'''Jason Scott Sadofsky''' (born September 13, 1970) is an American ], ] of technology, ], performer, and actor. Scott has been known by the online pseudonyms '''Sketch''', '''SketchCow''', '''Sketch The Cow''', '''The Slipped Disk''',<ref>{{Cite web\|title=DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCAL_YgYiP0 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324115458/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCAL_YgYiP0 \|archive-date=2023-03-24 \|url-status=live\|last=Scott\|first=Jason\| website=] \|time=35:24\|date=31 July 2010\|quote="A long time ago, I was The Slipped Disk."}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and '''textfiles'''. He has been called "the figurehead of the digital archiving world".<ref>{{cite web \|title=Jason Scott: Past (Digital) Lives \|url=https://fm4v3.orf.at/stories/1719683/index.html \|website=FM4 \|publisher=ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Network) \|access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref>
	'''Jason Scott Sadofsky''' (born September 13, ] in ]), more commonly known as '''Jason Scott''', (also known by the ]s "Sketch", "SketchCow" and previously "The Slipped Disk.") is the creator, owner and ] of ], a web site which archives files from historic ]s. He is also the creator of a ] about BBSes, '']'' which began shipping May, 2005.

			Scott is the creator, owner and ] of ], a web site which archives files from historic ]s. He is the creator of a 2005 documentary film about BBSes,
	In 1991, along with ] (who was known by the ] "Trout.Complex"), Sadofsky started ], a popular ]. ], Jason rarely visits TinyTIM anymore.
			'']'',<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ \|title=BBS: The Documentary \|publisher=Bbsdocumentary.com \|access-date=January 8, 2012 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106004705/http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ \|archive-date=January 6, 2012 }}</ref> and a 2010 documentary film about ], '']''.<ref>{{cite magazine \|last = Gagne \|first = Ken \|title = The Grill: Jason Scott \|magazine = ] \| publisher = ] \|date = July 26, 2010 \|url = https://www.computerworld.com/article/2550656/data-center/the-grill--jason-scott.html \|access-date = August 8, 2010 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171123071700/https://www.computerworld.com/article/2550656/data-center/the-grill--jason-scott.html \|archive-date = November 23, 2017 \|url-status=live}}</ref><ref></ref>

			Scott lives in New York state. He was the co-owner of the late ] celebrity cat ]. He works for the ] and has given numerous ] at technology related conferences on the topics of ], software, and website preservation.{{Citation needed\|date=February 2024}}
	In 1995 Jason joined the video game company ] 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, where he has remained.

			== Early life ==
	He has been a speaker at ], an annual ], the first time at the 7th conference in ], then again in ], ], ], ] and ]. Scott also spoke at ] 6 and 9, ]s 4 and 5, the 5th ] conference in ], ] 1 in 2004, as a backup speaker at ] 2, ] 7, and ] premiered his ] at the 7th annual ], where his screenings have become an anticipated staple. Most of his talks focus on the capturing of digital history or consist of narratives of stories relevant to his experiences online.
			Jason Scott Sadofsky{{r\|MIT Technology Review}} graduated from ] in ], New York, and served on the staff of the ] under the title "Humor Staff". While in ] he produced the humor magazine ''Esnesnon'' ("nonsense" backwards).<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://archive.org/details/1987-esnesnon \|title=Issue #1 of Esnesnon\|year=1987\|access-date=January 13, 2012}}</ref> He later graduated from ] in 1992 with a film degree.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://bbsdocumentary.com/longpitch.html\|title = BBS: A Documentary: The Pitch}}</ref> 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\|date=November 2020}}

			== Career ==
	He plans to begin filming a documentary about ], '''', in 2006.
			After graduating from Emerson, Scott lived in ] in ], where he was employed as a ] while also drawing caricatures for pay on the streets of Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113231228/http://www.cow.net/jason/person.htm \|archive-date=November 13, 2013 \|url=http://www.cow.net/jason/person.htm \|title=The Life and Times of Jason Scott \|publisher=Cow.net \|date=September 13, 1970 \|access-date=January 8, 2012 \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

			In 1990, Scott co-created TinyTIM, a popular ] that he ran for ten years.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ascii.textfiles.com/about \|title=ASCII by Jason Scott / About Jason Scott \|date=December 11, 2008 \|publisher=ascii.textfiles.com \|access-date=January 18, 2012}}</ref> In 1995, Jason joined the video game company ] 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,<ref>{{cite web\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717041614/http://www.cow.net/jason/employ.htm \|archive-date=July 17, 2012 \|url=http://www.cow.net/jason/employ.htm \|title=Jason Works for a Living \|publisher=Cow.net \|access-date=January 8, 2012 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> where he remained until 2009.
	He currently resides in the ] of ].

			He has been a speaker at ], an annual ]ference, the first time at the 7th conference in 1999, and has spoken there almost every year since then. Scott also spoke at ] 6 and 9, ]s 4 and 5, the 5th ] conference in 2004, ]s 1, 2 (as a backup), 3 and 4, ] 7, and ] premiered his ] at the 7th annual ]. Most of his talks focus on the capturing of digital history or consist of narratives of stories relevant to his experiences online.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://audio.textfiles.com/speeches/ \|title=T E X T F I L E S \|publisher=Audio.textfiles.com \|access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref>
	== Education ==
	Jason Scott graduated from ] in ] and served on the staff of the ] under the title "Humor Staff". He attended ] in ], graduating with a Mass Communications (Concentration in Film) degree. 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. After graduating from Emerson, Jason lived in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where was employed as a Temp worker while also drawing caricatures for pay on the streets of Cambridge.

			In 2006, Scott announced that he was starting a documentary on ]s, titled ''ARCADE''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.arcadedocumentary.com \|title=Arcade: A Documentary \|publisher=Arcadedocumentary.com \|access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref> Although he did not complete the project, all of the footage he shot for ''ARCADE'' has been made available on the ].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/textfiles/the-jason-scott-documentary-three-pack/posts/2378294\|title=Update 56: End. · The Jason Scott Documentary Three Pack\|website=Kickstarter\|language=en\|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://archive.org/details/arcadedocumentaryfootage\|title=ARCADE Documentary Footage and Interview Archives : Free Movies : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive\|website=archive.org\|language=en\|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>
	==Misplaced Pages Criticism==

			In 2007, he co-founded Blockparty, a North American ].<ref></ref> For their inaugural year, they paired up with ] which takes place annually in ], Ohio. This collaborative effort allowed the fledgling party to utilize the existing support structure of an established conference.
	Mr. Scott has written a number of times about Misplaced Pages, its structure, and his opinions on the environment, including essays on his ascii.textfiles.com weblog. Some of these include , , and . He has that he is giving a presentation called "The Great Failure of Misplaced Pages" at .

			In January 2009, he formed "],"<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://archiveteam.org/ \|title=archiveteam.org \|publisher=archiveteam.org \|access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/style/digital-photo-storage-purge.html\|title=It's Almost 2019. Do You Know Where Your Photos Are?\|last=Herrman\|first=John\|date=2018-11-29\|work=The New York Times\|access-date=2019-04-26\|language=en-US\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> a group dedicated to preserving the historical record of websites that close down.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/426434/fire-in-the-library/\|title=Fire in the Library\|last=Schwartz\|first=Matt\|website=MIT Technology Review\|language=en-US\|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref> Responding<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617 \|title=ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse \|date=December 21, 2008 \|publisher=Ascii.textfiles.com \|access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref> to the announcement by ] of the closure of ], the team announced<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1649 \|title=ASCII by Jason Scott / Datapocalypso! \|publisher=Ascii.textfiles.com \|date=January 18, 2009 \|access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref> plans to save<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1977 \|title=ASCII by Jason Scott / Geocities: Why Hello, Everybody \|publisher=Ascii.textfiles.com \|date=August 18, 2011 \|access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref> Podango and ].{{Citation needed\|date=February 2024}}
	==Speeches==

			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.<ref>{{cite web\|url=//www.kickstarter.com/projects/textfiles/the-jason-scott-sabbatical \|title=The Jason Scott Sabbatical \|publisher=Kickstarter \|access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref>
	Speeches and Presentations given by Jason at conventions:

			In early 2011, he was involved in ] and ] archive projects.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://laughingsquid.com/archive-team-trying-to-download-google-video-before-it-shuts-down/\|title=Archive Team Is Trying To Download Google Video Before It Shuts Down\|date=2011-04-18\|website=Laughing Squid\|language=en-US\|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Video\|title=Yahoo! Video - Archiveteam\|website=www.archiveteam.org\|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Video\|title=Google Video - Archiveteam\|website=www.archiveteam.org\|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>
	*TEXTFILES, G-PHILES, AND LOG FILES: Remembering the 1980's Through ASCII, <i>Defcon 7, July 10th, 1999</i>
	*TEXTFILES.COM: One Year Later, <i>Defcon 8, July 29th, 2000</i>
	*So You Got Your Lame Ass Sued: A Legal Narrative <i>Defcon 9, July, 2001</i>
	*Documenting the BBS, <i>Rubicon 4, April, 2002</i>
	*History of Phreaking 101 <i>PhreakNIC 6.0, November 1st, 2002</i>
	*Keynote: The Future is Now, <i>Rubicon 5, March 28, 2003</i>
	*Apple II Pirate Lore, <i>Rubicon 5, March 29, 2003</i>
	*100 Years of the Computer Art Scene (with ]) <i>] 1, April, 2004</i>
	*Saving Digital History: A Quick and Dirty Guide, <i>H2K4, July 11, 2004</i>
	*BBS: The Documentary: A Preview, <i>Defcon 12, August, 2004</i>
	*The History of the Coleco Adam <i>] 2, April, 2005</i>
	*Why Tech Documentaries are Impossible (And why we have to do them anyway.) <i>Defcon 13, July 31, 2005</i>
	*Fidonet Presentation and Q&A, <i>Toorcon 7, September 17th, 2005</i>
	*BBS Documentary Presentation <i>PhreakNIC 9.0, October 22, 2005</i>
	*ConCon: A History of Hacker Conferences <i>Shmoocon 2, January 13, 2005</i>

			Scott announced the creation of Archive Corps, a volunteer effort to preserve physical archives, in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://laughingsquid.com/archive-corps-a-volunteer-collective-to-help-quickly-save-physical-archives-before-they-are-lost/\|title=Archive Corps, A Volunteer Collective To Help Quickly Save Physical Archives Before They Are Lost\|date=2015-08-24\|website=Laughing Squid\|language=en-US\|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.archivecorps.org/\|title=Welcome to Archive Corps!\|website=www.archivecorps.org\|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>
	==References==
	*Jason Scott, ''The Defendant'' (July ]). . DEF CON speaker. Retrieved ]-].
	*Jason Sadofsky,
	*Jason Scott,
	*, including Jason Scott's ''"Why Tech Documentaries are Impossible"''

			Scott has been hosting his own podcast called ''Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It'' since 2017.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://archive.org/details/jasonscotttalks\|title=Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It : Free Audio : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive\|website=archive.org\|language=en\|access-date=2019-10-20}}</ref>
	==External links==
	* — Personal homepage
	*{{imdb name\|id=1926421\|name=Jason Scott Sadofsky}}

			Scott is the software curator at the Internet Archive.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://archive.org/details/software&tab=about&tab=about\|title=Download & Streaming : The Internet Archive Software Collection : Internet Archive\|website=archive.org\|language=en\|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref> In April 2019, he uploaded all of the source code for ]'s ] adventure games and ], including '']'' and '']'', to ].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://github.com/historicalsource\|title=historicalsource - Overview\|website=GitHub\|language=en\|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xdk8/long-lost-zork-source-code-uploaded-to-github-but-few-people-understand-it\|title=Long Lost 'Zork' Source Code Uploaded to GitHub, But Few People Understand It\|last1=Carpenter\|first1=Nicole\|last2=Maiberg\|first2=Emanuel\|date=2019-04-18\|website=Motherboard\|language=en-US\|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>
	*
	* — BBS archive project
	* — Web site for the documentary
	*, an interview with Jason Scott in ] online
	*
	*
	* — ''HarvardNetSucks'' account of the lawsuit.
	*http://www.sadofsky.com/

			===Sockington===
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			Sockington was a ] who lived in ]. He gained large-scale fame via the social networking site ]. Scott regularly posted from Sockington's Twitter account from late 2007.<ref name="TODAY">{{cite web\|url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30868712/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/\|title=Twitter followers paw over feline\|work=TODAY\|access-date=2009-08-18\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709003107/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30868712/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/\|archive-date=July 9, 2009\|df=mdy-all}}</ref> {{As of\|January 2018}}, Sockington's account has over 1.4 million followers, many of which are pet accounts themselves.<ref name="TODAY" /><ref name="chicagotribune">{{cite news\|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sun-social-media-aug16,0,3140196.story \|title=Twitter forcing a strategy switch for businesses\|work=Chicago Tribune\|access-date=2009-08-18}}</ref> Sockington died on July 18, 2022.<ref>{{Cite tweet\|number=1549175841082511361\|user=textfiles\|title=I'm sorry to report that @sockington had a downturn in health and is no longer with us. He was cared for every day of his dumb little life to the top standards of a celebrity cat and after 18 long years, he saw something really shiny in the clouds and decided to chase after it.\|author=Jason Scott\|date=July 18, 2022}}</ref>
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			=== Acting ===
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			Scott is a frequent collaborator of ] and appeared as an actor in '']: Sector 2'' (2009), '']'' (2018), and the science fiction comedy '']'' (2019).{{Citation needed\|date=February 2024}}
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			== Personal life ==

			Divorced,<ref name="MIT Technology Review">{{Cite web \|last1=Schwartz \|first1=Matt \|last2=Talmadge \|first2=Eva \|title=Fire in the Library \|work=] \|date=2011-12-20 \|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/12/20/188752/fire-in-the-library/ \|language=en \|access-date=2020-11-15 \|df=mdy-all }}</ref> Scott was engaged as of 2017.<ref>{{Cite web \|last1=Koebler \|first1=Jason \|title=Jason Scott Is Archiving CD-ROMs and Floppy Discs From Closets Around the World \|work=] \|date=2017-05-03 \|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/785zmx/jason-scott-is-archiving-cd-roms-and-floppy-discs-from-closets-around-the-world \|language=en \|access-date=2020-11-15 \|df=mdy-all }}</ref>

			== Filmography ==
			* '']'' (2005) (director)
			* '']'' (2010) (director)
			* '']'' (2012) (editor)
			* ''DEFCON: The Documentary'' (2013) (director)<ref>{{cite web\|last1=Chan\|first1=Casey\|title=DEFCON: A Documentary About the World's Largest Hacking Conference\|url=https://gizmodo.com/defcon-a-documentary-about-the-worlds-largest-hacking-1073052701\|website=Gizmodo\|date=August 9, 2013 \|access-date=12 May 2018}}</ref>
			* '']'' (2016) (interviewee)
			* '']'' (2018) (actor)
			* '']'' (2020) (interviewee)
			* ''Musings of a Mechatronic Mistress'' (2023) (interviewee)
			* '']'' (2024) (interviewee)

			== Citations ==
			{{Reflist\|30em}}

			== General references ==
			{{Refbegin}}
			* Jason Scott, ''The Defendant'' (July 2001). . DEF CON speaker. Retrieved 2004-11-19.
			* Jason Sadofsky,
			* Jason Scott,
			* {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050630023220/http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-13/dc13-speakers.html#top \|date=June 30, 2005 }}, including Jason Scott's "Why Tech Documentaries Are Impossible"
			{{Refend}}

			== External links ==
			{{Wikiquote}}
			{{Commons category}}
			* – Personal homepage (Archived)
			* {{twitter\|textfiles}}
			* {{IMDb name\|id=1926421\|name=Jason Scott Sadofsky}}
			* , an interview with Jason Scott in ] online
			* – ''HarvardNetSucks'' account of the lawsuit.
			* https://web.archive.org/web/20170911133405/http://sadofsky.com/
			*
			*
			* {{Vimeo\|10741713\|Jason Scott critiquing Misplaced Pages, 2006}}
			*

			{{Jason Scott}}
			{{BBS\|state=collapsed}}
			{{MUDs\|state=collapsed}}
			{{Internet Archive navbox\|state=collapsed}}
			{{Authority control}}

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Latest revision as of 18:23, 6 January 2025

American technology historian and archivist (born 1970) 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 mater	Emerson College
Occupation	Archivist
Known for	Archivist 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, and textfiles. He has been called "the figurehead of the digital archiving world".

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, and a 2010 documentary film about interactive fiction, GET LAMP.

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.

Early life

Jason Scott Sadofsky 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). He later graduated from Emerson College in 1992 with a film degree. 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.

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.

In 1990, Scott co-created TinyTIM, a popular MUSH that he ran for ten years. 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, 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.

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

In 2007, he co-founded Blockparty, a North American demoparty. 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," a group dedicated to preserving the historical record of websites that close down. Responding to the announcement by AOL of the closure of AOL Hometown, the team announced plans to save Podango and GeoCities.

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.

In early 2011, he was involved in Yahoo! Video and Google Video archive projects.

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

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

Scott is the software curator at the Internet Archive. 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.

Sockington

Main article: 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. As of January 2018, Sockington's account has over 1.4 million followers, many of which are pet accounts themselves. Sockington died on July 18, 2022.

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).

Personal life

Divorced, Scott was engaged as of 2017.

Filmography

BBS: The Documentary (2005) (director)
GET LAMP (2010) (director)
Going Cardboard (2012) (editor)
DEFCON: The Documentary (2013) (director)
Traceroute (2016) (interviewee)
Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018) (actor)
Class Action Park (2020) (interviewee)
Musings of a Mechatronic Mistress (2023) (interviewee)
Hacking at Leaves (2024) (interviewee)

Citations

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.
"Jason Scott: Past (Digital) Lives". FM4. ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Network). Retrieved March 18, 2019.
"BBS: The Documentary". Bbsdocumentary.com. Archived from the original on January 6, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
Gagne, Ken (July 26, 2010). "The Grill: Jason Scott". Computerworld. IDG. Archived from the original on November 23, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
Get Lamp
^ Schwartz, Matt; Talmadge, Eva (December 20, 2011). "Fire in the Library". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
"Issue #1 of Esnesnon". 1987. Retrieved January 13, 2012.
"BBS: A Documentary: The Pitch".
"The Life and Times of Jason Scott". Cow.net. September 13, 1970. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
"ASCII by Jason Scott / About Jason Scott". ascii.textfiles.com. December 11, 2008. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
"Jason Works for a Living". Cow.net. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
"T E X T F I L E S". Audio.textfiles.com. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
"Arcade: A Documentary". Arcadedocumentary.com. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
"Update 56: End. · The Jason Scott Documentary Three Pack". Kickstarter. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
"ARCADE Documentary Footage and Interview Archives : Free Movies : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive". archive.org. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
Blockparty
"archiveteam.org". archiveteam.org. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
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.
Schwartz, Matt. "Fire in the Library". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
"ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse". Ascii.textfiles.com. December 21, 2008. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
"ASCII by Jason Scott / Datapocalypso!". Ascii.textfiles.com. January 18, 2009. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
"ASCII by Jason Scott / Geocities: Why Hello, Everybody". Ascii.textfiles.com. August 18, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
"The Jason Scott Sabbatical". Kickstarter. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
"Archive Team Is Trying To Download Google Video Before It Shuts Down". Laughing Squid. April 18, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
"Yahoo! Video - Archiveteam". www.archiveteam.org. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
"Google Video - Archiveteam". www.archiveteam.org. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
"Archive Corps, A Volunteer Collective To Help Quickly Save Physical Archives Before They Are Lost". Laughing Squid. August 24, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
"Welcome to Archive Corps!". www.archivecorps.org. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
"Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It : Free Audio : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive". archive.org. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
"Download & Streaming : The Internet Archive Software Collection : Internet Archive". archive.org. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
"historicalsource - Overview". GitHub. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
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.
^ "Twitter followers paw over feline". TODAY. Archived from the original on July 9, 2009. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
"Twitter forcing a strategy switch for businesses". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
Jason Scott (July 18, 2022). "I'm sorry to report that @sockington had a downturn in health and is no longer with us. He was cared for every day of his dumb little life to the top standards of a celebrity cat and after 18 long years, he saw something really shiny in the clouds and decided to chase after it" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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.
Chan, Casey (August 9, 2013). "DEFCON: A Documentary About the World's Largest Hacking Conference". Gizmodo. Retrieved May 12, 2018.

General references

Jason Scott, The Defendant (July 2001). So You Got Your Lame Ass Sued: A Legal Narrative. DEF CON speaker. Retrieved 2004-11-19.
Jason Sadofsky, The Tribune Articles, 1987–88
Jason Scott, The Life and Times of Jason Scott
DEF CON 13 (2005) speakers Archived June 30, 2005, at the Wayback Machine, including Jason Scott's "Why Tech Documentaries Are Impossible"

External links

Jason Scott – Personal homepage (Archived)
Jason Scott on Twitter
Jason Scott Sadofsky at IMDb
Collector's Trove of Podcasts, an interview with Jason Scott in Wired magazine online
The Whole Lawsuit Thing – HarvardNetSucks account of the lawsuit.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170911133405/http://sadofsky.com/
leahpeah interview with Jason Scott
fsck interview with Jason Scott
Jason Scott critiquing Misplaced Pages, 2006 on Vimeo
Jason Scott talking about acting

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