On: The Other Half

[hengheng]

Who is this about? I read a well-written and beautiful story, I just have no idea what the context is.

[AceJohnny2 → hengheng]

Jason Scott is a computer archiver, in that he works to preserve the history of all things computing. He works for the Internet Archive.

He's been featured around here a few times: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=textfiles.com&sort=byPopularit...

One of the more memorable posts was the one where they worked frantically to preserve a warehouse full of old manuals: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10076974

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Scott

(and even his cat has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockington)

[textfiles → hengheng]

That's what I said!