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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A complete Creative Commons licensed video of the talk will be up in the next week or so on the ROFLCon site. Stay tuned…
This is a great video. Makes me want to hit up ROFL next year.