Jason Scott Presenting “Before the LOL” at ROFLCon

Jason Scott

Jason Scott gave one of the best ROFLCon 2008 talks, “Before the LOL”, where he guided us on a historical journey of pre-1995 internet culture and memes.

Jason Scott

Along with being an internet historian, Jason is also a documentary filmmaker. In 2005 he released “BBS: The Documentary” and is currently working on “Get Lamp”, a documentary about text adventures.

Jason is also a master of the art of goatse’ing people, distributing 703,899 in 2007.

UPDATE: Here’s Jason’s write-up on ROFLCon.

photos by Scott Beale

Scott Beale
Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.

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