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Apologies if it has been mentionned before. I came across serendipitously on this art infrastructure project http://gizmodo.com/how-to-see-the-internet-hiding-in-plain-sight-1787633653 which is also a book http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/networks-of-new-york/ As maintainers and infrastructure studies have been debated recently on the list, I wondered if it was known, and if it was, what do SIGCISers think about this piece? Yours, -- *********************************************** Alexandre Hocquet Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet ***********************************************
I would definitely recommend the book Tubes by Andrew Blum; he explores the huge physical infrastructure behind the Internet and the “cloud,” including the kind of equipment you see on telephone poles. Many of your emails still travel the same land and undersea routes as telegrams nearly 150 years ago. Ignore his recap of Internet history, which is mostly a repeat of ARPA creation myths. But the rest of the book is great. An earlier piece along the same lines is the mid ‘90s Wired piece "Mother Earth Motherboard <https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/>," by Neal Stephenson of Snow Crash fame. Very amusingly written, just smile at the mid ‘90s netopianism. Best, Marc Marc Weber <http://www.computerhistory.org/staff/Marc,Weber/> Curatorial Director, Internet History Program <http://computerhistory.org/nethistory> Computer History Museum 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd Mountain View, CA USA 94043 +1 415 282 6868 marc@webhistory.org Cofounder Web History Project and Center, webhistory.org
On Oct 16, 2016, at 12:26, Alexandre Hocquet <alexandre.hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
Apologies if it has been mentionned before. I came across serendipitously on this art infrastructure project
http://gizmodo.com/how-to-see-the-internet-hiding-in-plain-sight-1787633653
which is also a book
http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/networks-of-new-york/
As maintainers and infrastructure studies have been debated recently on the list, I wondered if it was known, and if it was, what do SIGCISers think about this piece?
Yours, -- *********************************************** Alexandre Hocquet
Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet *********************************************** _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
On Oct 16, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Alexandre Hocquet <alexandre.hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
Apologies if it has been mentionned before. I came across serendipitously on this art infrastructure project http://gizmodo.com/how-to-see-the-internet-hiding-in-plain-sight-1787633653
which is also a book http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/networks-of-new-york/
As maintainers and infrastructure studies have been debated recently on the list, I wondered if it was known, and if it was, what do SIGCISers think about this piece?
I have a copy of the *Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure* book, which is fabulous. The author, Ingrid Burrington, was at the 2016 Maintainers conference at Stephens, and so she is knows the history of tech/history of computing community pretty well. The premise of the book — a field guide to infrastructure is brilliant. She describes the spray-painted codes that maintenance workers use to identify where things are buried, covered, or otherwise concealed. Its the language of maintenance hidden in plain sight throughout the built environment. -Nathan --- Nathan Ensmenger Associate Professor of Informatics School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University, Bloomington homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/
Related: I streamed the DE-CIX New York Summit last week. In the keynote Hunter Newby talked about the history of New York interconnection. https://livestream.com/internetsociety/de-cix/videos/138995706 On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Ensmenger, Nathan <nensmeng@indiana.edu> wrote:
On Oct 16, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Alexandre Hocquet <alexandre.hocquet@univ- lorraine.fr> wrote:
Apologies if it has been mentionned before. I came across serendipitously on this art infrastructure project http://gizmodo.com/how-to-see-the-internet-hiding-in-plain- sight-1787633653
which is also a book http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/ networks-of-new-york/
As maintainers and infrastructure studies have been debated recently on the list, I wondered if it was known, and if it was, what do SIGCISers think about this piece?
I have a copy of the *Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure* book, which is fabulous. The author, Ingrid Burrington, was at the 2016 Maintainers conference at Stephens, and so she is knows the history of tech/history of computing community pretty well.
The premise of the book — a field guide to infrastructure is brilliant. She describes the spray-painted codes that maintenance workers use to identify where things are buried, covered, or otherwise concealed. Its the language of maintenance hidden in plain sight throughout the built environment.
-Nathan
--- Nathan Ensmenger Associate Professor of Informatics School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University, Bloomington homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/
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I wrote a blog post about this years ago, when I stumbled upon the mysterious "MAE-East": http://www.ithistory.org/blog/not-quite-machu-picchu-close Paul Ceruzzi ceruzzip@si.edu 202-633-2414 -----Original Message----- From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre Hocquet Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2016 3:27 PM To: members@lists.sigcis.org Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] How to See the Internet Hiding in Plain Sight Apologies if it has been mentionned before. I came across serendipitously on this art infrastructure project http://gizmodo.com/how-to-see-the-internet-hiding-in-plain-sight-1787633653 which is also a book http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/networks-of-new-york/ As maintainers and infrastructure studies have been debated recently on the list, I wondered if it was known, and if it was, what do SIGCISers think about this piece? Yours, -- *********************************************** Alexandre Hocquet Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet ***********************************************
On 10/17/16 5:58 AM, Ceruzzi, Paul wrote:
I wrote a blog post about this years ago, when I stumbled upon the mysterious "MAE-East": http://www.ithistory.org/blog/not-quite-machu-picchu-close
Paul Ceruzzi ceruzzip@si.edu 202-633-2414
MAE-West is (was?) in Palo Alto
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