Jason Scott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jason Scott

American technology historian and archivist

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1970

Place of Birth: Hopewell Junction, New York, United States

Profession: archivist, film director, media historian, podcaster

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Social Profiles:

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Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970), 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 "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 is the co-owner of Twitter celebrity 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.