The Victorian Internet : the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth centuryʼs on-line pioneers / Tom Standage.

The Victorian Internet : the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth centuryʼs on-line pioneers /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Standage, Tom
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Walker and Co., [1998]
Subjects:
Telegraph > History.
Local Note:WIT BNA TOC 200804 jea.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Mother of All Networks
  • 2. Strange, Fierce Fire
  • 3. Electric Skeptics
  • 4. The Thrill Electric
  • 5. Wiring the World
  • 6. Steam-Powered Messages
  • 7. Codes, Hackers, and Cheats
  • 8. Love over the Wires
  • 9. War and Peace in the Global Village
  • 10. Information Overload
  • 11. Decline and Fall
  • 12. The Legacy of the Telegraph.

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