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NetAffair brings together a wide range of expertise to reveal the evolutionary paths in networking developments over the last 40 years. We propose to outline how technical developments, social capabilities, political and industrial decisions and standardisations all shaped the design of the Net. Project NetAffair will show how all the elements considered are interconnected and how Europe influenced the development of networking. Nevertheless, the main purpose is to connect future generations of networking with the past to thereby gain a better understanding about how decisions are being made and what consequences can already be identified.
NetAffair – The Conference is cancelled for the time being. Yet “NetAffair – The Project” will go on. We continue to put a trace on just popping up ideas and products and will open up our archives in order to tell the story of the coming about of computer networking and the original ideas behind. We will bring back to the surface the voices and stories of specialists in fields such as data communication, services, wireless networking, politics, standardisation and economy and will analyze the effects on society.
Sponsoring: Firstly there is still the plan for the conference, secondly there is the opportunity to help us to bring the original voices and ideas back to the surface in order to foster a better understanding of what computer and communications networking is all about. We already have done a lot of digging and writing, yet dark spots exist and designing attractive storyboards need some funding, too. If you want to help out with information, time or funding drop us a note. For the time being by using good old mail and write to info netaffair org, adding dot and at symbol.
