Jason Scott articles

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  Feature

  'The Thing' Redialed: how a BBS changed the art world and came back from the dead

  By Joshua Kopstein on March 15, 2013 12:30 pm + 24 comments

  One day in November of 1991, Wolfgang Staehle found himself at his studio, the basement of a former Continue reading…

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  Article

  System restore: how archivists salvaged 1,500 volumes of digital art from Sandy's floodwaters

  By Joshua Kopstein on January 15, 2013 03:00 pm + 19 comments

  Hard drive crashes and corrupted files repeatedly instruct us on the importance of keeping media Continue reading…

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  Article

  Stop playing vintage games on new monitors

  By Aaron Souppouris on December 10, 2012 03:58 am + 36 comments

  The problem with playing old games with new technology, argues Textfile's Jason Scott, is they're Continue reading…

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  Walking the Web 1.0 wasteland

  By Joshua Kopstein on July 12, 2012 02:23 pm + 17 comments

  Interest in the aesthetics of the early web has surged in recent years, and it's not hard to see Continue reading…