The Victorian Internet
by Tom Standage · Tom Standage
A narrative history of the electric telegraph from its eighteenth-century experiments to its global network. It shows how the telegraph produced the same hype, crime, romance and information overload later attributed to the internet, giving historical context for modern communication debates.
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