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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
For thousands of years people had communicated across distances only as quickly as the fastest ship or horse could travel. Generations of innovators tried to develop speedier messaging devices. Then, in the mid-1800s, a few extraordinary pioneers at last succeeded. Their invention--the telegraph--nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before, or since. This book tells the story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it. By 1865 telegraph cables spanned continents and oceans, revolutionizing the ways countries dealt with one another, giving rise to creative business practices and new forms of crime. Romances blossomed over the wires. The benefits of the network were hyped by advocates and dismissed by skeptics. Government regulators tried and failed to control the new medium. And attitudes toward everything from news gathering to war had to be completely rethought.--From publisher description
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| Author | Tom Standage |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Walker & Company |
| September 1998 | |
| Media type | Print, ebook |
| Pages | 227 pages |
| ISBN | 0802713424 |
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers is a 1998 book by Tom Standage.[1] The book was first published in September 1998 through Walker & Company and discusses the development and uses of the electric telegraph during the second half of the 19th century and some of the similarities the telegraph shared with the Internet of the late 20th century.[2]
The central idea of the book posits that of these two technologies, it was the telegraph that was the more significant, since the ability to communicate globally at all in real-time was a qualitative shift, while the change brought on by the modern Internet was merely a quantitative shift according to Standage,[3] though, by the same token, global communication was just a quantitative shift from long-distance communication.
Contents[edit]
The book describes to general readers how some of the uses of telegraph in commercial, military, and social communication were, in a sense, analogous to modern uses of the internet. A few rather unusual stories are related, about couples who fell in love and even married over the wires, criminals who were caught through the telegraph, and so on.
Eyeshield 21 episode 1 sub. The culture which developed between telegraph operators also had some rather unexpected affinities with the modern Internet. Both cultures made or make use of complex text coding and abbreviated language slang, both required network security experts, and both attracted criminals who used the networks to commit fraud, hack private communications, and send unwanted messages.[4]
Reception[edit]
Critical reception of the book was mostly positive.[5][6][7]Smithsonian magazine gave a positive review for The Victorian Internet, but stated that it was 'not the book for readers who want in-depth accounts of the lives of scientist-inventors like Thomas Edison or Charles Wheatstone, detailed financial histories of companies like Western Union, or technical treatments of subjects like the development of semaphore systems and undersea cables'.[8] The Los Angeles Times had some criticisms of the book but gave a mostly positive review.[9]
References[edit]
- ^Weise, Elizabeth (Oct 7, 1998). 'The telegraph, the Internet: Here we go again Author chronicles amazing resemblance in technological history'. USA Today. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^Walton, David (1998-12-13). 'Telegraph was The Victorian Internet, indeed Tom Standage's book reveals how the invention brought remarkable changes in 19th century'. The Kansas City Star. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^'Victorian Internet'. NPR. October 19, 1999. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^Stroh, Michael (Dec 28, 1998). 'The Victorian net; The electric telegraph was the 1890s version of the Internet'. The Sun - Baltimore, Md. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^'Review: Victorian Internet'. Booklist. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^'Review: Victorian Internet'. Library Journal (BookVerdict). Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^'Review: Victorian Internet'. Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^Alden, John R. 'Review of 'The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers''. Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^Silverman, Kenneth (May 23, 1999). 'dot-dash'. LA Times. Retrieved 8 June 2013.