Jason Scott Sadofsky
Historian, Organization founder
1970 –
Who is Jason Scott Sadofsky?
Jason Scott Sadofsky, more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist, historian of technology, and filmmaker. Scott has been known by the online pseudonyms "Sketch," "SketchCow" and "The Slipped Disk."
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 with his cat Sockington. He works for Internet Archive and has given numerous presentations at technology related conferences on the topics of digital history, software, and website preservation.
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- Born
- Sep 13, 1970
Hopewell Junction - Also known as
- Jason Scott
- SketchCow
- Sketch
- The Slipped Disk
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Emerson College
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
- Chappaqua
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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