Editing Jason Scott (section)

== Career ==
After graduating from Emerson, Scott lived in [[Harvard Square]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], where he was employed as a [[Temporary employment|temp worker]] while also drawing caricatures for pay on the streets of Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113231228/http://www.cow.net/jason/person.htm |archive-date=November 13, 2013 |url=http://www.cow.net/jason/person.htm |title=The Life and Times of Jason Scott |publisher=Cow.net |date=September 13, 1970 |access-date=January 8, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1990, Scott co-created TinyTIM, a popular [[MUSH]] that he ran for ten years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ascii.textfiles.com/about |title=ASCII by Jason Scott / About Jason Scott |date=December 11, 2008 |publisher=ascii.textfiles.com |access-date=January 18, 2012}}</ref> In 1995, Jason 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. After Focus Studios' closure, Jason moved into UNIX administration,<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717041614/http://www.cow.net/jason/employ.htm |archive-date=July 17, 2012 |url=http://www.cow.net/jason/employ.htm |title=Jason Works for a Living |publisher=Cow.net |access-date=January 8, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> where he remained until 2009.

He has been a speaker at [[DEF CON]], an annual [[hacker con]]ference, the first time at the 7th conference in 1999, and has spoken there almost every year since then. Scott also spoke at [[PhreakNIC]] 6 and 9, [[Rubi Con]]s 4 and 5, the 5th [[H.O.P.E.]] conference in 2004, [[Notacon]]s 1, 2 (as a backup), 3 and 4, [[Toorcon]] 7, and [[Development stage#Beta|beta]] premiered his [[BBS Documentary|documentary]] at the 7th annual [[Vintage Computer Festival]]. Most of his talks focus on the capturing of digital history or consist of narratives of stories relevant to his experiences online.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://audio.textfiles.com/speeches/ |title=T E X T F I L E S |publisher=Audio.textfiles.com |access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref>

In 2006, Scott announced that he was starting a documentary on [[video arcade]]s, titled ''ARCADE''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arcadedocumentary.com |title=Arcade: A Documentary |publisher=Arcadedocumentary.com |access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref> Although he did not complete the project, all of the footage he shot for ''ARCADE'' has been made available on the [[Internet Archive]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/textfiles/the-jason-scott-documentary-three-pack/posts/2378294|title=Update 56: End. · The Jason Scott Documentary Three Pack|website=Kickstarter|language=en|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/arcadedocumentaryfootage|title=ARCADE Documentary Footage and Interview Archives : Free Movies : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive|website=archive.org|language=en|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>

In 2007, he co-founded Blockparty, a North American [[demoparty]].<ref>[http://www.demoparty.us/ Blockparty]</ref> For their inaugural year, they paired up with [[Notacon]] which takes place annually in [[Cleveland]], Ohio. This collaborative effort allowed the fledgling party to utilize the existing support structure of an established conference.

In January 2009, he formed "[[Archive Team]],"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiveteam.org/ |title=archiveteam.org |publisher=archiveteam.org |access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/style/digital-photo-storage-purge.html|title=It's Almost 2019. Do You Know Where Your Photos Are?|last=Herrman|first=John|date=2018-11-29|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-04-26|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> a group dedicated to preserving the historical record of websites that close down.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/426434/fire-in-the-library/|title=Fire in the Library|last=Schwartz|first=Matt|website=MIT Technology Review|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref> Responding<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617 |title=ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse |date=December 21, 2008 |publisher=Ascii.textfiles.com |access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref> to the announcement by [[AOL]] of the closure of [[AOL Hometown]], the team announced<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1649 |title=ASCII by Jason Scott / Datapocalypso! |publisher=Ascii.textfiles.com |date=January 18, 2009 |access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref> plans to save<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1977 |title=ASCII by Jason Scott / Geocities: Why Hello, Everybody |publisher=Ascii.textfiles.com |date=August 18, 2011 |access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref> Podango and [[GeoCities]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

In October 2009, he started raising funds for a year-long sabbatical from his job as a computer systems administrator, to pursue technology history and archival projects full-time. By November 2009, he had reached his funding goals, with the support of over 300 patrons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/textfiles/the-jason-scott-sabbatical |title=The Jason Scott Sabbatical |publisher=Kickstarter |access-date=January 8, 2012}}</ref>

In early 2011, he was involved in [[Yahoo! Video]] and [[Google Video]] archive projects.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://laughingsquid.com/archive-team-trying-to-download-google-video-before-it-shuts-down/|title=Archive Team Is Trying To Download Google Video Before It Shuts Down|date=2011-04-18|website=Laughing Squid|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Video|title=Yahoo! Video - Archiveteam|website=www.archiveteam.org|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Video|title=Google Video - Archiveteam|website=www.archiveteam.org|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>

Scott announced the creation of Archive Corps, a volunteer effort to preserve physical archives, in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://laughingsquid.com/archive-corps-a-volunteer-collective-to-help-quickly-save-physical-archives-before-they-are-lost/|title=Archive Corps, A Volunteer Collective To Help Quickly Save Physical Archives Before They Are Lost|date=2015-08-24|website=Laughing Squid|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.archivecorps.org/|title=Welcome to Archive Corps!|website=www.archivecorps.org|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>

Scott has been hosting his own podcast called ''Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It'' since 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/jasonscotttalks|title=Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It : Free Audio : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive|website=archive.org|language=en|access-date=2019-10-20}}</ref>

Scott is the software curator at the Internet Archive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/software&tab=about&tab=about|title=Download & Streaming : The Internet Archive Software Collection : Internet Archive|website=archive.org|language=en|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref> In April 2019, he uploaded all of the source code for [[Infocom]]'s [[Text-based game|text-based]] adventure games and [[interactive fiction]], including ''[[Zork]]'' and ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', to [[GitHub]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/historicalsource|title=historicalsource - Overview|website=GitHub|language=en|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/long-lost-zork-source-code-uploaded-to-github-but-few-people-understand-it/|title=Long Lost 'Zork' Source Code Uploaded to GitHub, But Few People Understand It|last1=Carpenter|first1=Nicole|last2=Maiberg|first2=Emanuel|date=2019-04-18|website=Motherboard|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>

===Sockington===
{{main|Sockington}}
[[File:Sockington from above.jpg|thumb|Scott's cat, Sockington]]
Sockington was a [[domestic cat]] who lived in [[Waltham, Massachusetts]]. He gained large-scale fame via the social networking site [[Twitter]]. Scott regularly posted from Sockington's Twitter account from late 2007.<ref name="TODAY">{{cite web|url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30868712/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/|title=Twitter followers paw over feline|work=TODAY|access-date=2009-08-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709003107/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30868712/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/|archive-date=July 9, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref> {{As of|January 2018}}, Sockington's account has over 1.4&nbsp;million followers, many of which are pet accounts themselves.<ref name="TODAY" /><ref name="chicagotribune">{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sun-social-media-aug16,0,3140196.story |title=Twitter forcing a strategy switch for businesses|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2009-08-18}}</ref> Sockington died on July 18, 2022.<ref>{{Cite tweet|number=1549175841082511361|user=textfiles|title=I'm sorry to report that @sockington had a downturn in health and is no longer with us. He was cared for every day of his dumb little life to the top standards of a celebrity cat and after 18 long years, he saw something really shiny in the clouds and decided to chase after it.|author=Jason Scott|date=July 18, 2022}}</ref> 

=== Acting ===
Scott is a frequent collaborator of [[Johannes Grenzfurthner]] and appeared as an actor in ''[[Soviet Unterzoegersdorf]]: Sector 2'' (2009), ''[[Glossary of Broken Dreams]]'' (2018), and the science fiction comedy ''[[Je Suis Auto]]'' (2019).{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}