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

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

by Tom Standage
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

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

by Tom Standage

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Overview

A new paperback edition of the book the Wall Street Journal dubbed “a Dot-Com cult classic,” by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first “Internet.”

The Victorian Internet
tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781620405925
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 02/25/2014
Edition description: Second Edition, Revised
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 364,176
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Tom Standage is the former technology editor and current business editor at the Economist. He is the author of Writing on the Wall: Social Media-The First 2000 Years, the bestseller A History of the World in 6 Glasses, An Edible History of Humanity, The Turk, and The Neptune File. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Prefacevii
1.The Mother of All Networks1
2.Strange, Fierce Fire22
3.Electric Skeptics41
4.The Thrill Electric57
5.Wiring the World74
6.Steam-Powered Messages92
7.Codes, Hackers, and Cheats105
8.Love over the Wires127
9.War and Peace in the Global Village145
10.Information Overload164
11.Decline and Fall181
12.The Legacy of the Telegraph201
Epilogue212
Sources214
Acknowledgments218
Index219

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William Gibson

An inspired and utterly topical rediscovery of the emergence of the earliest modern communications technology. I recommend it highly.

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