Updates from digital history
Here we regularly publish short articles from our research project, finds from archive research and partial values from digital history.
Hacking History: Reviewing 38C3's Contributions to the History of Digital Inequalities
At the dnd of December 2024, the 38th Chaos Communications Congress (38C3) took place in Hamburg. Under the motto “Illegal Instructions” the international hacker scene & friends discussed topics around technology, society and utopia. Some of the talks are available as recordings on the CCC media page. Three talks are recommended here, because they are particularly relevant to questions of the history of digital inequalities.
Conference Report Europast
The second Europast summer school is a collaborative project between the C2DH in Luxemburg, the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, and the University of Lund, Sweden. The overarching topic was using digital tools for public history projects. The conference took place on the Belval campus of the University of Luxemburg from July 1 to 4, 2024.
The Creation of Tomorrow's Borders
The European Union's unwavering commitment to controlling its external borders was impressively demonstrated during last week's D-Day celebrations. As part of the festivities, a reenactment of the Allied troops landing in Normandy took place. Under the watchful eyes of thousands of spectators, British paratroopers landed on European soil. To their surprise,
"Wiring"? No thanks!
The year is 1983 (A.D.). The whole of Germany is to be made future-proof with a large-scale copper cable network expansion. The whole of Germany? No. A small group of "anti-cable" activists are opposing nationwide digital networking. And from the activists' point of view, life in a "wired" future will not be easy for consumers, unskilled workers and women in general...