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Slides from “Happy Packet Switching: 50 Years of Internet”, 6th November 2019

Posted byJonathan Gray 11 November 201910 November 2022

To commemorate the Internet’s 50th birthday, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London recently hosted an event on “Happy Packet Switching: 50 Years of Internet” with a series of short talks from researchers in the department.

You can now find all of the slides here: https://kingsddh.gitlab.io/happy-packet-switching/

  • Video: The History of ARPANET
  • Dr Stuart Dunn, Growing up tall and proud: Arpanet and the Cold War
  • Dr Mercedes Bunz, Thank you internet, or how I got away from Kittler
  • Dr Claire Reddleman, The Power of Abstraction: Mapping the Internet
  • Video: How does packet switching work?
  • Dr Conor McKeown, Logic; Cryptography; The Internet: How Cracking Codes Led to Shaking Hands
  • Dr Daniel Nemenyi, Cybernetic Guerilla Warfare
  • Dr Kristen Schuster, The Internet Was Invented for Sharing Cat Photos…
  • Dr Photini Vrikki, At the Internet’s Margins? After the Mainstreaming of Online Practices
  • Dr. Ashwin Mathew, Whose Internet?
  • Video: The future of ARPANET

Video montages by Dr Marta Musso.

Posted byJonathan Gray11 November 201910 November 2022Posted inDDH Activities, Event

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