Jason Scott

Updated: 09/12/2023 by Computer Hope
Jason Scott Sadofsky

Name: Jason Scott Sadofsky, commonly called Jason Scott

Born: September 13, 1970, in Hopewell Junction, New York, USA

Computer-related contributions

  • American archivist known by his online pseudonyms "Sketch," "SketchCow" and "The Slipped Disk."
  • Technology historian and filmmaker.
  • Founder, owner and manager of textfiles.com, a website which archives files from historic bulletin board systems.
  • Maker of BBS: The Documentary, a documentary film about BBSes (2005).

Filmography

  • Class Action Park (2020) (interviewee)
  • Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018) (actor)
  • Traceroute (2016) (interviewee)
  • DEFCON: The Documentary (2013) (director)
  • Going Cardboard (2012) (editor)
  • GET LAMP (2010) (director)
  • BBS: The Documentary (2005) (director)

Quotes

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

Websites