Jason Scott Presenting “Before the LOL” at ROFLCon

by Scott Beale on May 27, 2008 · 4 comments

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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1 Tim April 30, 2008 at 3:59 pm

A complete Creative Commons licensed video of the talk will be up in the next week or so on the ROFLCon site. Stay tuned…

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2 Andrew Mager June 1, 2008 at 9:22 am

This is a great video. Makes me want to hit up ROFL next year.

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