The Victorian Internet

The Victorian Internet

1998

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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.


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Short, easy-to-read book about the telegraph and how it was a bit like the internet of it's day.

March 26, 2016

Quick and interesting read. Some really neat history in there.

August 30, 2009
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