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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">9 January 2024 – London and Online - start
the New Year by joining Archives of IT for a one-day event</span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Discussing the extraordinary technical and social developments that enabled the internet
to revolutionise computing and communications and significantly change our lives. </span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</span></p>
<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.”</span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Full programme, speakers’ bios and bookings</b> at
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-of-it-forum-on-the-histories-of-the-internet-tickets-691738758247?aff=oddtdtcreator" id="LPlnk433685" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-of-it-forum-on-the-histories-of-the-internet-tickets-691738758247</a></span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Concessions for students and learned society members</span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>This event is kindly supported by the British Society for the History of Science -
</b><a href="https://www.bshs.org.uk/" id="LPlnk331482" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.bshs.org.uk/</a></span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(15, 92, 26);"><b>Tom Abram</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(15, 92, 26);"><b>Director – Archives of IT</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:research@archivesit.org.uk" id="OWAd09f442a-9ffb-a1ed-f564-5bb05f74cefd" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">research@archivesit.org.uk</a></span></p>
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