#HistSciFest Note that ALL of the Crowdcast sessions are recorded and available afterwards at the links on the Festival website!
Mine, for instance: crowdcast.io/e/tour-of-the-… (which I will now have to watch back with teeth clenched through the bits that went wrong)
The recording also includes the live chat (keep trying to scrolling back and it'll slowly bring in earlier posts), in which several people have kindly provided links, clarifications, and personal recollections...
Thanks in particular to @bhgross144, who not only joined the chat but provided this really nice livetweet thread:
And thanks to twitter.com/TechbyAfrikans for the pointer to Anna Everett's 2009 book "Digital Diaspora" as a useful step in developing a more representatively global history of the Internet: sunypress.edu/p-4722-digital…
...@TechByAfrikans is also in the #HistSciFest session "Future directions" on Friday, alongside @ManCHSTM's own @Iqrathebookworm and other interesting researchers. (This session's details appeared quite recently: check it out if you haven't seen it) bshsfestival.org.uk/index.php/prog…
A couple of other suggestions:
Dinesh Sharma on the longer-term history of India's IT industry mitpress.mit.edu/books/outsourc…
Jenna Burrell's 2012 STS study (which can be read at a historical remove) on cybercafés in Ghana mitpress.mit.edu/books/invisibl…
and the various 2010s studies on mobile telephony across Africa (notably the Cameroonian work supported by Leiden and the Science Museum) surveyed in this edited volume: core.ac.uk/download/pdf/1…
If you want to watch Hyperland (featuring ACTUAL TOM BAKER IN A CUMMERBUND), it's on YouTube but also in slightly higher quality here: vimeo.com/72501076
Also from the Crowdcast chat: @curatorconnelly points out that there's a replica of Doug Englebart's mouse prototype, as mentioned by Ted Nelson in Hyperland, in the @sciencemuseum collections: collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8359…
^Engelbart (it's wrong in the video). Sorry, Doug.
The Otter auto-transcription interestingly – though perhaps not surprisingly, to those who follow how these things work – can spell Doug Engelbart's name perfectly well, and yet has me getting "horribly distracted by the disappearance of my feet." [feed]
#HistSciFest Here's the Nerve Centre as it was set up to do the Internet event. Note the mobile phone on a Magic Arm, which served as my makeshift beer-camera using the IP Webcam app.
(Not pictured, the tablet PC seen in the beer-camera view, as I'm using it to take the photo)
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