announced that he was starting a documentary on video arcades, titled ARCADE. Although he did not complete the project, all of the footage he shot for ARCADE has been made available on the Internet Archive. In 2007, he co-founded Blockparty, a North American demoparty. For their inaugural year, they paired up with Notacon which takes place annually in Cleveland, Ohio. This collaborative effort allowed the fledgling party to utilize the existing support structure of an established conference. In January 2009, he formed "Archive Team," a group dedicated to preserving the historical record of websites that close down. Responding to the announcement by AOL of the closure of AOL Hometown, the team announced plans to save Podango and GeoCities. In October 2009, he started raising funds for a year-long sabbatical from his job as a computer systems administrator, to pursue technology history and archival projects full-time. By November 2009, he had reached his funding goals, with the support of over 300 patrons. In early 2011, he was involved in Yahoo! Video and Google Video archive projects. Scott announced the creation of Archive Corps, a volunteer effort to preserve physical archives, in 2015. Scott has been hosting his own podcast called Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It since 2017. Scott is the software curator at the Internet Archive. In April 2019, he uploaded all of the source code for Infocom's text-based adventure games and interactive fiction, including Zork and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, to GitHub. Sockington Sockington was a domestic cat who lived in Waltham, Massachusetts. He gained large-scale fame via the social networking site Twitter. Scott regularly posted from Sockington's Twitter account from late 2007. , Sockington's account has over 1.4 million followers, many of which are pet accounts themselves. Sockington died on July 18, 2022. Acting Scott is a frequent collaborator of Johannes Grenzfurthner and appeared as an actor in Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: Sector 2 (2009), Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018), and the science fiction comedy Je Suis Auto (2019). Personal life Divorced, Scott was engaged as of 2017. Filmography BBS: The Documentary (2005) (director) GET LAMP (2010) (director) Going Cardboard (2012) (editor) DEFCON: The Documentary (2013) (director) Traceroute (2016) (interviewee) Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018) (actor) Class Action Park (2020) (interviewee) Je Suis Auto (2023, upcoming) (actor) Presentations TEXTFILES, G-PHILES, AND LOG FILES: Remembering the 1980s Through ASCII – DEF CON 7, July 10, 1999 TEXTFILES.COM: