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Jason Scott Sadofsky
Jason Scott Sadofsky
BBS Documentary DVD box cover
BBS Documentary DVD box cover

Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970 in Hopewell Junction, New York), more commonly known as Jason Scott, (also known by the pseudonyms "Sketch", "SketchCow" and previously "The Slipped Disk.") is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems. He is also the creator of a documentary film about BBSes, BBS: The Documentary which began shipping May, 2005.

In 1991, along with John Joseph Rescigno I (who was known by the pseudonym "Trout.Complex"), Sadofsky started TinyTIM, a popular MUSH. As of 2005, Jason rarely visits TinyTIM anymore.

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 has remained.

He has been a speaker at DEF CON, an annual hacker conference, the first time at the 7th conference in 1999, then again in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005. Scott also spoke at PhreakNIC 6 and 9, Rubi Cons 4 and 5, the 5th H.O.P.E. conference in 2004, Notacon 1 in 2004, as a backup speaker at Notacon 2, Toorcon 7, and beta premiered his documentary at the 7th annual Vintage Computer Festival, 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.

He plans to begin filming a documentary about text adventure games, GET LAMP, in 2006.

He currently resides in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

Education

Jason Scott graduated from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York and served on the staff of the school newspaper under the title "Humor Staff". He attended Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, 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.

Misplaced Pages Criticism

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 The Great Failure of Misplaced Pages, A Criticism of Misplaced Pages Now Exceeding a Scream, and Swastikipedia. He has announced that he is giving a presentation called "The Great Failure of Misplaced Pages" at Notacon 3.

Speeches

Speeches and Presentations given by Jason at conventions:

  • TEXTFILES, G-PHILES, AND LOG FILES: Remembering the 1980's Through ASCII, Defcon 7, July 10th, 1999
  • TEXTFILES.COM: One Year Later, Defcon 8, July 29th, 2000
  • So You Got Your Lame Ass Sued: A Legal Narrative Defcon 9, July, 2001
  • Documenting the BBS, Rubicon 4, April, 2002
  • History of Phreaking 101 PhreakNIC 6.0, November 1st, 2002
  • Keynote: The Future is Now, Rubicon 5, March 28, 2003
  • Apple II Pirate Lore, Rubicon 5, March 29, 2003
  • 100 Years of the Computer Art Scene (with RaD Man) Notacon 1, April, 2004
  • Saving Digital History: A Quick and Dirty Guide, H2K4, July 11, 2004
  • BBS: The Documentary: A Preview, Defcon 12, August, 2004
  • The History of the Coleco Adam Notacon 2, April, 2005
  • Why Tech Documentaries are Impossible (And why we have to do them anyway.) Defcon 13, July 31, 2005
  • Fidonet Presentation and Q&A, Toorcon 7, September 17th, 2005
  • BBS Documentary Presentation PhreakNIC 9.0, October 22, 2005
  • ConCon: A History of Hacker Conferences Shmoocon 2, January 13, 2005

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