<p>The Splendiferous Story of Archive Team and the Rapidly Disappearing Digital Heritage is a fast-paced, context-heavy, hilarious yet intense overview of ways in which digital history has been lost, how it might be saved, and what it all means. It is a manifesto and a narrative about work being done on many quarters by a ragtag bunch of volunteers to gather and contain various lost sites, as well as a fist-waving rant about the downward spiral of over-reliance on the idea of the Cloud and the forfeiting of digital identity to parties truly unknown. Archive Team mascot Jason Scott will cover what's being done, how it's being done, and what you can do to help.</p>
<p>Jason Scott is a full-time computer historian dedicated to saving the stories, data and artifacts of bygone technology. Besides TEXTFILES.COM, his collection of BBS-era data and software, he also has filmed documentaries and acquired thousands of magazines and writes an awful lot of stuff at ascii.textfiles.com. He is also popular on twitter, but is overshadowed by his cat Sockington, who has a million and a half followers. Poor Jason.</p>