The Victorian Internet
by Standage, TomEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1999-10-15
Publisher(s): Berkley Trade
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Summary
The invention of the telegraph and the "online" pioneers who ensured the communications revolution.
Author Biography
Tom Standage is a journalist who has written about science and technology for many newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Independent, and Wired. Former deputy editor of the technology section of The Daily Telegraph, he is now a science writer at The Economist in London
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| The Mother of All Networks | p. 1 |
| Strange, Fierce Fire | p. 22 |
| Electric Skeptics | p. 41 |
| The Thrill Electric | p. 57 |
| Wiring the World | p. 74 |
| Steam-Powered Messages | p. 92 |
| Codes, Hackers, and Cheats | p. 105 |
| Love over the Wires | p. 127 |
| War and Peace in the Global Village | p. 145 |
| Information Overload | p. 164 |
| Decline and Fall | p. 181 |
| The Legacy of the Telegraph | p. 201 |
| Epilogue | p. 212 |
| Sources | p. 214 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 218 |
| Index | p. 219 |
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