Jason Scott

thumb|right|So you can be a historian and also be an asshole. Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970), more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist and historian of technology. Quotes [Yahoo!] found the way to destroy the most massive amount of history in the shortest amount of time with absolutely no recourse. Internet Atrocity! GeoCities' Demise Erases Web History So you can be a historian and also be an asshole. ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack “Google is a library or archive like a supermarket is a food museum.”https://e-records.chrisprom.com/jason-scott-archive-team/ Jason Scott: Archive Team 2012-02-24 Google is a library or archive like a supermarket is a food museum. Chris Prom Variation: Treating Google like an Archive is like treating a supermarket like a Food Museum.Tweet by @textfiles, Jan 21, 2020, 12:35 AM: “But as I've said before: Treating Google like an Archive is like treating a supermarket like a Food Museum. It's not true, it doesn't scale, and it's ridiculously precarious.” "Neutral Point of View is a doctrine about how Wikipedia articles should be written. Like wikipedia itself, it is a great idea in theory. In application, of course, it turns into yet another hammer for wonks and whackjobs to beat each other and innocent bystanders." http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/808 The Great Failure of Wikipedia 19 November 2004 6 April 2024 Quotes about Jason Scott Jason Scott is an arrogant, self-impressed idiot who thinks he's god's gift to techies because he remembers "the golden days" of BBS's. A 2006 comment on Slashdot by a user named Superbanana, which Jason Scott appropriated for use in the banner of his textfiles site. The original post was in https://slashdot.org/story/06/08/28/181223/wikipedia-wars----lake-express-ferry?sdsrc=nextbtmnext Wikipedia Wars -- Late Express Ferry 28 August 2006 6 April 2024. External links Jason Scott Category:Internet personalities Category:Historians from the United States Category:1970 births Category:Living people Category:Critics from the United States Category:Bloggers from the United States Category:People from New York (state)