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Revision as of 21:42, 18 December 2005
Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970 in Hopewell Junction, New York), more commonly known as Jason Scott, 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. [1] 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.
Scott is also known by the pseudonyms "SketchCow" and previously "The Slipped Disk."
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, 2003 and 2004 and is scheduled to speak there again in 2005. Scott also spoke at the 5th H.O.P.E. conference, in 2004, as well as PhreakNIC 6, Notacon 2004, Rubi Cons 4 and 5, 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.
Education
Jason Scott graduated from Horace Greeley High School 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.
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, including Jason Scott's "Why Tech Documentaries are Impossible"
External links
- Jason Scott — Personal homepage
- Jason Scott Sadofsky at IMDb
- ASCII — jason scott's weblog
- textfiles.com — BBS archive project
- BBS Documentary — Web site for the documentary
- Collector's Trove of Podcasts, an interview with Jason Scott in Wired magazine online
- HarvardNetSucks
- Saving Digital History: A Quick and Dirty Guide, by Jason Scott (Hope 2004 Conference)
- The Whole Lawsuit Thing — HarvardNetSucks account of the lawsuit.
- http://www.sadofsky.com/