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BOOK: Walker & Company | 2007-09-18 | ISBN : 0802716040 | Pages: 256 | PDF | 17.22 MB

AUTHOR: Tom Standage
http://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/the-victorian-internet/

TITLE: "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers"

A new paperback edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses—the fascinating

story of the telegraph, the world’s first “Internet,” which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet

has the twentieth and twenty first.


DESCRIPTION:
In the nineteenth century there were no televisions, aeroplanes, computers, or spacecraft; neither were there antibiotics,

credit cards, microwave ovens, compact discs, or mobile phones.

There was, however, an Internet.

During Queen Victoria’s reign, a new communications technology was developed that allowed people to communicate almost

instantly across great distances, in effect shrinking the world faster and further than ever before. A world-wide

communications network whose cables spanned continents and oceans, it revolutionised business practice, gave rise to new

forms of crime, and inundated its users with a deluge of information. Romances blossomed over the wires. Secret codes were

devised by some users, and cracked by others. The benefits of the network were relentlessly hyped by its advocates, and

dismissed by the sceptics. Governments and regulators tried and failed to control the new medium. Attitudes to everything

from newsgathering to diplomacy had to be completely rethought. Meanwhile, out on the wires, a technological subculture with

its own customs and vocabulary was establishing itself.

Does all this sound familiar?

Today the Internet is often described as an information superhighway; its nineteenth-century precursor, the electric

telegraph, was dubbed the “highway of thought.” Modern computers exchange bits and bytes along network cables; telegraph

messages were spelled out in the dots and dashes of Morse code and sent along wires by human operators. The equipment may

have been different, but the telegraph’s impact on the lives of its users was strikingly similar.

The telegraph unleashed the greatest revolution in communications since the development of the printing press. Modern

Internet users are in many ways the heirs of the telegraphic tradition, which means that today we are in a unique position to

understand the telegraph — and the telegraph, in turn, can give us a fascinating perspective on the challenges, opportunities

and pitfalls of the Internet.

The rise and fall of the telegraph is a tale of scientific discovery, technological cunning, personal rivalry, and cut-throat

competition. It is also a parable about how we react to new technologies: for some people, they tap a deep vein of optimism,

while others find in them new ways to commit crime, initiate romance or make a fast buck — age-old human tendencies that are

all too often blamed on the technologies themselves.

This is the story of the oddballs, eccentrics and visionaries who were the earliest pioneers of the on-line frontier, and the

global network they constructed — a network that was, in effect, the Victorian Internet.

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