Dear colleagues, With today marking the 50th anniversary of the first packets being zipped across the ARPANET, I would like to encourage you all to keep up the creative, insightful and critical research that so regularly flows through this list and onto screens like mine around the globe. I would also like to extend an invitation to come toast this moment with the Department of Digital Humanities of King's College London next week, where we're putting on an evening of short reflections and drinks. Please do come along if you're able. Details are as follows: _Happy Packet Switching! 50 Years of Internet_ Date: Wednesday 6 Nov 2019, 18:00-21:00 Venue: King's College London (Strand), London, UK Reservation: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/happy-packet-switching-tickets-77325266955 Dr Mercedes Bunz, 'Thank you internet, or how I got away from Kittler' Dr Stuart Dunn, 'Growing up tall and proud: Arpanet and the Cold War' Dr Kate Devlin Dr Ashwin Mathew*, 'Whose internet?' Dr Conor McKeown, 'Logic; Cryptography; The Internet: How Cracking Codes Led to Shaking Hands' Dr Daniel Nemenyi*, 'Cybernetic Guerrilla Warfare'ji Dr Claire Reddleman, 'The Power of Abstraction: mapping the internet' Dr Kristen Schuster, 'The Internet Was Invented for Sharing Cat Photos...' Dr Phottini Vrikki, 'At the Internet’s Margins? After the Mainstreaming of Online Practices' Films edited by Dr Marta Musso*. * Organising committee https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/happy-packet-switching-tickets-77325266955 Warm regards, Dr Daniel Nemenyi