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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth...
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by Tom Standage
Sales Rank: 37374
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Discount: 32 %
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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Walker & Company; Reprint edition September 18, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802716040
ISBN-13: 978-0802716040
Product Dimensions:
7.7 x 5 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
Product Review
Praise for The Victorian Internet
“A dot com cult classic,”—Wall Street Journal
“I was simply fascinated by this book. It contains parallels between the reception of the telegraph and the Internet which I knew nothing about.”—Vinton Cerf, co-inventor of the Internet
“Sparkling.”—Forbes
“Fascinating…If you’ve ever hankered for a perspective on media Net hype, this book is for you.”—Wired
“A delightful book.”—Smithsonian
“A fascinating walk through a pivotal period in human history.”—USA Today
“An entertaining primer on a complex subject of increasing interest.”—Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review
“An admirably efficient and concise telling of the story of the rise and decline of the telegraph.”—Henry Petroski, author of The Pencil
Book Description
A new paperback edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses—the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world’s first “Internet,” which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.
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.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." It is, perhaps, surprising to learn that much of what has taken place with the Internet could have been predicted by studying events in the past 150 years. The invention, deployment and integration of the telegraph into society and business practices mirror the Internet in a great many ways. The Internet has shrunk the world (like never before?), enabled business to take place at the speed of light (like never before?), caused information overload (ditto), and even enabled new mechanisms of dating and marriage to take place (again ditto). One wonders if by studying the rise (and fall) of the telegraph and related technologies we can predict the next "big things" and opportunities in this age of the internet? This is a terrific "gee-whiz" book, an easy read on an airplane. It will likely amuse you; it may evoke an epiphany or two; it may even spark the idea for a new product or business!
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