RE: https://mastodon.social/@sebgiessmann/113310606901096421
So this came out a year ago 🕸️. Yet, it is still around – both as a printed book and in digital #openaccess! 👉 https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12547.001.0001
We just had a great author meets critics session on it at #shot2025 with @modo_2022, Elizabeth Petrick, @ccmmody & Thomas Haigh. Thanks to everyone for discussing the book in Luxembourg together!
I had a great couple of days at the #SHOT2025 conference in Luxembourg. Our panel went really well and I enjoyed presenting my work there. I thank Zach Furste for inviting me and the SHOT/EDITH Special Interest Group for supporting me with a travel grant. I hope to see you all next year
Lara Marziali discusses the conflict between state bureaucracy & astronomers in what computer to use (& pay for!) I see strong parallells to a contemporary fight in Sweden between effiency and scientific independence! #shot2025
@kdriscoll points to an interesting aspect of #AI history at #SHOT2025
Up next: Kevin Driscoll on the circulation of printed source code in magazines and books in the 1980s (at a time when ”using the computer” often meant writing code, starting out from printed examples or tutorials) #shot2025
The LisaDesk code serves as an example. Ca 40 % of the code is developers’ comments (including ASCII art!) offering useful insights for the historian exploring the development process #shot2025
How can source code be used as a historical source? That’s the theme of the ”Code Histories” series of panels here at #shot2025. Titaÿna Kauffmann at @c2dh.uni.lu presenting on the Apple LISA computer and its programming languages.
Happy to report from Esch, Luxembourg where I’m participating in the 2025 Annual Conference of the Society of History of Technology (SHOT). Great presentations and dialogues going on. I’m presenting tomorrow morning. Excited.
#SHOT2025 #HistoryofTechnology #MediaStudies #Chile #Cybernetics
My colleague Dennis Magnusson showing off some not-so-humble marketing material handed out by the Swedish IT commission on its visit to Japan in 2000. #shot2025
Alina Volynskaya starts off the session on multimedia, digital preservation and format migration with this beautiful guide to the internet produced by NASA in 1997. #shot2025
there's no better place in space and time than right now, right here! #SHOT2025
Company/staff magazines are a useful source, especially when company archives have been discarded or destroyed. David Michelson uses ”Telephone Talk” to chart the history of the North-West Telephone Company (of British Columbia, Canada) #shot2025
Miaofeng Yao examines the political and philosophical motivations for Gao Lu’s 1920s typewriter for Chinese characters. #shot2025
Fascinating talk by Elizabeth Petrick on the adventures of Bill Atkinson, Susan Kare & others after they left Apple to start General Magic. #shot2025
Attending #shot2025 in Luxembourg these upcoming days – looking forward to interesting presentations and meeting other historians of technology.
