The owner of the site gave a talk at DEFCON 17, "That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY&ab_channel=Chris...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY&ab_channel=Chris...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddbe9OuJLU
GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary (shot in 1080p)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU
and (apart from his many talks) his podcast "Jason Scott talks his way out of it" which is just gem after gem of documented tech ephemera.
It's baffingly hard to quantify how many people he (and all the other great people at the Internet Archive) has affected with his bullheaded conservation efforts.
Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/jasonscotttalks
Initial post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/989
Post about goatse: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011
More: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1012 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1127
Moral: HOTLINKING BAD
I think the moral is rather that hotlinking is dangerous.
So great.
I'm glad everyone else seems to have had positive interactions with him also.
I appreciate when someone young or curious reaches out to me for context or questions because I did that throughout my life and I always appreciated when it was rewarded with a response. I try to be the person I always hoped was on the other side.