3 ms·
Jason 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 aro
by AceJohnny2 10y ago
Jason 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)