[Air-L] Invitation to contribute discussion to an article entitled 'Internet History Differentiated: A Proposal'

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On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM Noel Packard <npac825 at aucklanduni.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues ,
>
> Here is an invitation to contribute some discussion to my latest draft
> article entitled, "Internet History Differentiated: A Proposal" here:
> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dhgrk647cz13kot5u5wag/Internet-History-Differentiated-A-Proposal-N-Packard-May-26-2025-copy.pdf?rlkey=5l8sbn7xwscwd1lbpljfp694k&st=07fdnx5g&dl=0
>
>  I am proposing that social scientists begin to differentiate history into
> non-Internet years (up to 1960), military/pre-Internet or Cold War years
> (1960-1995) and post-Internet years (1995- onward). I write about what
> hinders this (or why we don’t differentiate Internet history) and why it
> would be a benefit to do so. I illustrate the article with one of my
> infographics that I designed and Hannah Day crafted. The article is about
> 8,200 words. I would be honoured if you could write a few sentences for the
> Discussion section and send them to me by June 30th 2025.
>
> The infographic in the article is also part of a show entitled, 'Making
> Internet History More Visible' which I am presenting at the New Zealand
> Science Festival in July.:
> https://scifest.org.nz/programme/making-internet-history-more-visible
>
> Please feel free to send questions and discussion to
> npac825 at aucklanduni.ac.nz
>
> Kind Regards
> Noel Packard PhD, BA Honors, MA, MPA, BA
> (pronounced Noelle she/her)
> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6589-3362
>
>