* 6 PM
o Presentation of Laznia and Parakino
o Michal Brzezinski, Laznia
* 7:30 PM
o A Personal Journey Towards Datameaningfulness
o Rachel Lovinger, Avenue A | Razorfish
* 8:30 PM
o Time Travel On 8 Bits A Day
o Jason Scott, textfiles.com
* 10:00 PM
o Film screening
o Jason Scott, textfiles.com
Computer History, once a somewhat strange idea, has now taken the
world by storm; a magazine or newsletter merely has to dip their
ladle into the piles of nostalgia and older images of computing
technology to guarantee readership, commentary and links. But what is
it like to live in this just-past world of unusual keyboards,
cartridge slots and 256 colors?
Jason Scott describes the process by which he became a collect of
online artifacts, the strange twists and turns his journey has taken
(both legal and financial) and the lessons he has learned towards the
goal of “saving everything”.
Jason Scott is a digital historian and documentary filmmaker based
out of the Northeastern US, focusing on bulletin board system culture
of the 1970s and 1980s. He often finds himself well outside of that
realm and has collected many archives of general computer and
software history, which he makes available on various parts of his
online archive, TEXTFILES.COM.