Jason Scott Presenting “Before the LOL” at ROFLCon

posted by Scott Beale on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Jason Scott

Jason Scott

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

The full video of the talk is now up on the Internet Archive.

Rocketboom has posted a great summary of Jason’s talk.

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.

photo by Scott Beale

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this blog post was written by Scott Beale on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008


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