Dear colleagues, I would like to bring to your attention "something completely different". In order to celebrate the 40th anniversary of EARN, the EARN 2024 conference will take place in Athens on April 20-21 2024, in conjunction with the RIPE SEE 12 Meeting, and with significant material and organizational support from the RIPE NCC. EARN, the European Academic and Research Network, started in 1984 as the first multi-vendor computer communications network in Europe, before the Internet became widely available in the region. For the next ten years, until it merged with RARE (Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne) to form TERENA in 1994, EARN was active in introducing computer networking throughout Europe and beyond (former Soviet republics, the Middle East and North Africa). Among the speakers at the conference, a number of inductees in the Internet Hall of Fame are expected: - [Dennis Jennings](https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/dennis-jennings) - [Frode Greisen](https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/frode-greisen/) - [François Flückiger](https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/francois-fluckiger/) - [Jan Gruntorád](https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/jan-gruntorad/) - [Daniel Karrenberg](https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductee/daniel-karrenberg/) The organizers look forward to meeting again with EARN colleagues, and will be delighted to see others who are interested in the history of computer networks for an occasion to share ideas, lessons learned, memories, and history. - More information is available from the conference site [https://www.earn2024.net/](https://www.earn2024.net/). - The RIPE NCC has very kindly set up the [registration page](https://meeting-registration.ripe.net/meeting-pub/registration?meetingId=f73...) for EARN 2024, and has also arranged a special rate, as for SEE 12, for [bookings at the conference hotel](https://divanicaravel.reserve-online.net/?checkin=2024-04-19&rooms=1&nights=1&adults=1&bkcode=RIPENCC24). As one of the organizers, I am very much looking forward to this event, as also to SEE 12 itself. I hope to see many of you there, at one or other meeting, or even both of them. Niall O'Reilly sometime technical specialist at the EARN OSI Operations Centre in Amsterdam (see [presentation at RIPE50](https://meetings.ripe.net/ripe-50/videos/plenary-10.mp4), from about offset 0:38:15).