THE VICTORIAN INTERNET

The Victorian Internet

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The Victorian Internet

Historians happy embrace issues that lend themselves to comparisons of past to present. And author Tom Standage cultivated fertile ground in Victorian Internet, its nice story the telegraph and their similarities fit for today's online world. Standage, business editor of The Economist estimates, writes an entertaining and informative history of the telegraph.

The importance of the telegraph is not well understood by the generations of today. However, moves quickly through this book makes the case that the telegraph changed the way we communicate on both sides of the Atlantic. Standage explores ...