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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
Tom Standage
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| #296059 in Books | 2014-02-25 | 2014-02-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .31 x.66 x5.06l,.45 | File type: PDF | 256 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Fun Read|By Dr H|This is an entertaining little study on how the impact of the development of the internet on contemporary society uncanily paralled the impact of the telegraph on Victorian society. Standage makes his case with clever historical reference and light humor. One can clearly see the similarities between a younger generation growing up with the "new" technology|.com |Imagine an almost instantaneous communication system that would allow people and governments all over the world to send and receive messages about politics, war, illness, and family events. The government has tried and failed to control it, and its revolu
The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways.
You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers | Tom Standage.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
