Jason Scott To Be Speaking at ROFLCon!

ROFLCon has increasingly put us in touch with a bunch of people who do Cool Things. So, in addition to the central stream of internet celeb/academic discussion panels (see the Preliminary Schedule, soon to be revised after discussions with people way more talented than us and readers like you), we’ve decided that ROFLCon’s going to play host to a series of pretty awesome unmoderated talks/events on a variety of meme related topics.

To that end, I’m happy to announce today that the brilliant Jason Scott, the creator of the highly recommended, incredibly comprehensive cultural record BBS: The Documentary and director of textfiles.com, will be presenting on pre-Web 1.0 cultural phenomenon and celebrities.

The talk to be entitled, simply, “BEFORE THE LOL.” Very cool, considering our oldest meme is circa 1995. Should round this thing out a bit.