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Who is this about? I read a well-written and beautiful story, I just have no idea what the context is.
by hengheng 10y ago
Who is this about? I read a well-written and beautiful story, I just have no idea what the context is.
- AceJohnny2 10y agoJason Scott is a computer archiver, in that he works to preserve the history of all things computing. He works for the Internet Archive. He's been featured around here a few times: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=textfiles.com&sort=byPopularity&prefix&dateRange=all https://hn.algolia.com/?query=textfiles.com&sort=byPopularit... One of the more memorable posts was the one where they worked frantically to preserve a warehouse full of old manuals: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10076974 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10076974 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Scott (and even his cat has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockington)
- textfiles 10y agoThat's what I said!