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Jason Scott Sadofsky , more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist, historian of technology, filmmaker, performer, and actor. Scott has been known by the online pseudonyms Sketch, SketchCow, The Slipped Disk, and textfiles. He has been called "the figurehead of the digital archiving world".He 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 Hopewell Junction, New York. 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. September 1970
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Jason Scott Sadofsky Quotes

“[Yahoo! ] found the way to destroy the most massive amount of history in the shortest amount of time with absolutely no recourse.”

Jason Scott Sadofsky

Internet Atrocity! GeoCities' Demise Erases Web History http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1936645,00.html

Way , History , Time

“So you can be a historian and also be an asshole.”

Jason Scott Sadofsky

ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ZTmuX3cog#t=13m50s

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