Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers
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| Year of Publication |
1998
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| Contributors |
Author:
Tom Standage |
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| Number of Pages |
227 pp.
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| Publisher |
Walker and Company
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| City |
New York, NY
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| ISBN |
9780802713421
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| Annotation |
Contents:
The mother of all networks
Strange, fierce fire
Electric skeptics
The thrill electric
Wiring the world
Steam-powered messages
Codes, hackers, and cheats
Love over the wires
War and peace in the global village
Information overload
Decline and fall
The legacy of the telegraph.
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