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

Author: Tom Standage
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Berkley Books, 1999, ©1998.
Edition/Format: Book : English : Berkley trade pbk. edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tom Standage
ISBN: 0425171698 : 9780425171691
OCLC Number: 42832356
Description: ix, 227 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Tom Standage.

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