[SIGCIS-Members] Book Now: AIT Forum on the Histories of the Internet - January - London and Online

[Joly MacFie]

For those of us elsewhere, will this be available online, live or archived?


Joly

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 12:20 PM Tom Abram via Members <
members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

> 9 January 2024 – London and Online - start the New Year by joining
> Archives of IT for a one-day event
>
>
> Discussing the extraordinary technical and social developments that
> enabled the internet to revolutionise computing and communications and
> significantly change our lives.
>
>
> Technologists who were instrumental in its establishment and the social
> scientists who analysed its impact will contribute to five interactive
> sessions of personal insights, information sharing, debate and networking.
>
>
> They include Prof Jim Norton, whose early career at the Post Office
> epitomises the internet’s modest and uncertain beginnings and the ingenuity
> of the people behind it: “They wanted me to be clerk of works on a project
> that nobody believed would have any importance whatsoever, which was the
> development of the first packet switches in the UK.”
>
>
> *Full programme, speakers’ bios and bookings* at
> https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-of-it-forum-on-the-histories-of-the-internet-tickets-691738758247
> <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-of-it-forum-on-the-histories-of-the-internet-tickets-691738758247?aff=oddtdtcreator>
>
>
> Concessions for students and learned society members
>
>
> *This event is kindly supported by the British Society for the History of
> Science - *https://www.bshs.org.uk/
>
>
> *Tom Abram*
>
> *Director – Archives of IT*
>
> research at archivesit.org.uk
>
> *www.archivesit.org.uk <http://www.archivesit.org.uk/>*
>
>
>
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