14 Facts About Jason Scott

Jason Scott has been called "the figurehead of the digital archiving world".

Jason Scott is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.

Jason Scott is the creator of a 2005 documentary film about BBSes, BBS: The Documentary, and a 2010 documentary film about interactive fiction, GET LAMP.

Jason Scott was the co-owner of the late Twitter celebrity cat Sockington.

Jason Scott Sadofsky graduated from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York, and served on the staff of the school newspaper under the title "Humor Staff".

Jason Scott later graduated from Emerson College in 1992 with a film degree.

In 1990, Jason Scott co-created TinyTIM, a popular MUSH that he ran for ten years.

In 1995, Jason Scott joined the video game company Psygnosis as a technical support worker, before being hired by a video game startup, Focus Studios, as an art director.

Jason Scott has been a speaker at DEF CON, an annual hacker conference, the first time at the 7th conference in 1999, and has spoken there almost every year since then.

In 2006, Jason Scott announced that he was starting a documentary on video arcades, titled ARCADE.

Jason Scott announced the creation of Archive Corps, a volunteer effort to preserve physical archives, in 2015.

Jason Scott gained large-scale fame via the social networking site Twitter.

Jason Scott regularly posted from Sockington's Twitter account from late 2007.

Jason Scott is a frequent collaborator of Johannes Grenzfurthner and appeared as an actor in Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: Sector 2, Glossary of Broken Dreams, and the science fiction comedy Je Suis Auto.