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{{Short description|American historian and archivist (born 1970)}}
{{About|the archivist}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2011}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Jason Scott
| image              = File:Jason Scott (2017 Portrait).jpg
| caption            = Scott in 2017
| birth_name         = Jason Scott Sadofsky
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1970|9|13}}
| birth_place        = [[Hopewell Junction, New York|Hopewell Junction]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
| death_date         = 
| death_place        = 
| alma_mater         = [[Emerson College]]
| occupation         = [[Archivist]]
| known_for          = Archivist and historian of technology, performer, internet personality
}}

'''Jason Scott Sadofsky''' (born September 13, 1970) is an American [[archivist]], [[historian]] of technology, [[filmmaking|filmmaker]], performer, and actor. Scott has been known by the online pseudonyms '''Sketch''', '''SketchCow''', '''Sketch The Cow''', '''The Slipped Disk''',<ref>{{Cite web|title=DEF CON 18 - Jason Scott - You're Stealing It Wrong! 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCAL_YgYiP0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324115458/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCAL_YgYiP0 |archive-date=2023-03-24 |url-status=live|last=Scott|first=Jason| website=[[YouTube]] |time=35:24|date=31 July 2010|quote="A long time ago, I was The Slipped Disk."}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and '''textfiles'''. He has been called "the figurehead of the digital archiving world".<ref>{{cite web |title=Jason Scott: Past (Digital) Lives |url=https://fm4v3.orf.at/stories/1719683/index.html |website=FM4 |publisher=ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Network) |access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref>

Scott is the creator, owner and [[system administrator|maintainer]] of [[textfiles.com]], a web site which archives files from historic [[bulletin board system]]s. He is the creator of a 2005 documentary film about BBSes,
''[[BBS: The Documentary]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ |title=BBS: The Documentary |publisher=Bbsdocumentary.com |access-date=January 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106004705/http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ |archive-date=January 6, 2012 }}</ref> and a 2010 documentary film about [[interactive fiction]], ''[[GET LAMP]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |last = Gagne |first = Ken |title = The Grill: Jason Scott |magazine = [[Computerworld]] | publisher = [[IDG]] |date = July 26, 2010 |url = https://www.computerworld.com/article/2550656/data-center/the-grill--jason-scott.html |access-date = August 8, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171123071700/https://www.computerworld.com/article/2550656/data-center/the-grill--jason-scott.html |archive-date = November 23, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://www.getlamp.com/ Get Lamp]</ref>

Scott lives in New York state. He was the co-owner of the late [[Twitter]] celebrity cat [[Sockington]]. He works for the [[Internet Archive]] and has given numerous [[#Presentations|presentations]] at technology related conferences on the topics of [[digital history]], software, and website preservation.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}