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Jason Scott Sadofsky

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."

BBS Documentary DVD box cover

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.

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