The Victorian Internet
Subtitle: the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers
By: Tom Standage.
Edition: Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Telegraph -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: The mother of all networks; title: Strange, fierce fire; title: Electric skeptics; title: The thrill electric; title: Wiring the world; title: Steam-powered messages; title: Codes, hackers, and cheats; title: Love over the wires; title: War and peace in the global village; title: Information overload; title: Decline and fall; title: The legacy of the telegraph.