[Metalab] Time Travel On 8 Bits A Day - Jason Scott - Paraflows 2008 @ metalab

[das ende der nahrungskette]

Paraflows 2008 and Dorkbot Vienna present:

-- Time Travel On 8 Bits A Day
-- Jason Scott

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.

- When: Thursday, September 18 2008, 8:30 PM
- Where: Metalab, Rathausstrasse 6, 1010 Vienna

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