Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970) is an American archivist, historian of technology, filmmaker, performer, and actor.

[2] Scott is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems.

He works for the Internet Archive and has given numerous presentations at technology related conferences on the topics of digital history, software, and website preservation.

Most of his talks focus on the capturing of digital history or consist of narratives of stories relevant to his experiences online.

This collaborative effort allowed the fledgling party to utilize the existing support structure of an established conference.

[citation needed] 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.

[30] 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.

[35] 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).