The Australian Web Archive is trying its best 😭

Had friends coming to me for info on how telecommunications works so they can argue better against their ISP/phone company - does this count as 'research impact'?

Oh so now my explanation that a bunch of early hacks were people trying password = password isn't looking so far fetched is it?

Interesting to see an uptake in reports like this. Obvs there are significant differences, but I've been pointing out similarities for ages. Tech sold on FOMO, focus by companies having the tech as opposed to the usefulness of having it, extremely grand statements about world changing potential

They've all been asking me to talk about hackers for ages, so it was fun to throw something together for a somewhat impromptu (and very silly) Monash Semi-nah

Once again forgot to get photos of myself presenting, but it was such a delight to talk about Australia's own cyberfeminist zine Geekgirl at #aoir2025 yesterday!

Writing a One Nation lecture this week like "oops revise the end another thing happened. Revise it again there's another thing. Revise it..."

Secret challenge of this year's grand final: explaining to non-footy fans what the whole deal with the Lions is

This protest isn’t scheduled to start for two hours yet and there are already TWO sets of TV reporters and camera crews here setting up their shots. Melbourne has protests every single weekend and few if any get this level of media attention. No media setting up at the Gaza rally location.

Huge win: got my students talking in depth about railway gauges today

Peak productivity achieved by putting Blade on in the background while I mark

Okay original series Star Trek is lit, wildly entertaining, incredibly silly

Me in the archives opening TV footage files: I will be prepared for the ear-splitting beep this time, I will be prepared for the....

Recently was made aware (by a student) that Whitlam brat edits exist?? Made my week

Uuuuuh Word, you doing okay there buddy?

Running our annual writing retreat really was a fantastic way to close out my year as Monash's History HDR rep ✌️

In “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” the author describes “inevitablism” as a tactic companies use to stop conversation about the amount of our private lives they are commodifying and selling.

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

Everyone involved in the process of publishing this article so was immensely supportive and encouraging (and the article itself resulted in my first citation on Wikipedia)

Check out the latest blog in the new environmental gender history series - a piece by Harrison Croft (@harrycroft.bsky.social‬) on women's roles in early climate science 🌿⚗️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/the-gap...

Bought a new USB for the first time in years only to find out USB 3 interferes with my bluetooth keyboard 😑

Finally, finally made it to the National Communication Museum and had the best time

You too can see CSIRAC (Aus first supercomputer) for free with a student card. Subjecting your friends to an unskippable explanatory cutscene optional

There's been a heap of interest in Australia's teen social media ban, but a lot of confusion remains about how the law works, how it's being implemented and what we still don't know. Here's my attempt to answer all your questions. (Did I miss something? Tell me!) www.crikey.com.au/20...

Honestly best parts of AHA every year are meeting new people, hearing about fascinating research, and leaving reinvigorated to launch back into my own research

Can't believe I once again forgot to get someone to take a photo of me giving my paper 😔

Tumblr speaking truths here

Okay why don't all Unis have a cool fish tank

Yeah Townsville is pretty nice so far

So excited to talk about some of the amazing oral history interviews I've been doing as part of my research at the AHA conference this year

The Forum was an extremely on theme location for Kisschasy to play Hymns for the Nonbeliever

Trying to find the correct shade of orange to match my PowerPoint to the 80s Telecom logo, it's thematically important

Brb sending this to every historian I know

Visited the door to the room which once housed Australia's first digital computer (CSIRAC) today - apparently IT at UniMelb take it with them whenever they change buildings

Can't believe our election night jokes about the end of the coalition are actually manifesting this quickly

I have once again fallen behind on Dracula Daily, rapidly catch up or try again next year? 🤔

Waking up to Melbourne of all places still being in doubt feels wild

I fear I have written the words network and internetworking so often they have lost all meaning

Recently been playing everyone's favourite game: who currently has these records

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

Started putting together a senate cheat sheet for the election, self-imposed chaos

Maybe a trip to see CSIRAC will fix all my problems

"Delulu with no solulu", "temu trump", May 3 election Huge week in Aus politics

I spent more time than I'd care to admit today looking at NBN memes and debating if I should add them to a PowerPoint

Hot take: 8am tutes are good actually, i still have my whole day ahead of me

HDR members of the AHA are invited to take part in weekly Shut Up and Write sessions, beginning 17 March on Zoom! Contact [email protected] for more info!

First time tutoring on a history subject, analysing primary sources with students is so fun actually!!

Got informed that one of the librarians is preparing a staff email about accessing things stored in obsolete formats - because of me ✌️

I think it's pretty cool actually that humans got computers and pretty soon afterwards were like, how do we make these things sing?

Adventures in the archives: 1. Accessing a CD interactive database through a virtual machine cause it ran on an old version of Internet Explorer 2. A document turning out to be on a 3 1/2" floppy & having to inquire if they had anything to run it