Jason Scott Gives A Whole Presentation (About His Cat)

Tech historian Jason Scott is curator of Textfiles.com and the man behind the epically comprehensive BBS: The Documentary. He was also the man behind “Before the LOL,” which was generally regarded as one of the most solid talks at ROFLCon in April.

Little known fact: he’s actually also the formal representative of his cat, Sockington, who now (basically) boasts way more followers than you on Twitter (as of this morning: 4,118). Sockington only follows other cats on Twitter.

In other words, it is seriously weird. And we’re happy to announce today that Jason will be giving a complete talk on this and other cat based fads through history.

The talk is entitled “Egad Tuna,” subject as follows:

In which a curious set of circumstances leads a twittering cat, Sockington, to gain thousands of people following his insane twitter feed. His owner, Jason Scott, describes Sockington’s lineage, the timeline of his success, and general historical observations on what leads to fads and worldwide cat fancy. (And free catnip).

Really, I don’t think I can follow that up. Thank you for your attention. E-mail us at Tim AT roflcon DOT org if you want to reserve tickets.