Holiday Gift Guide #25 - The Victorian Internet

by Douglas E. Welch, myword@welchwrite.com

The Victorian Internet refers to the dramatic changes that a ubiquitous telegraph brought to the world during the 19th Century and the striking similarities between the change wrought then and those dramatic changes caused by our current Internet. Standage's account of these heady times is riviting.

Link: #25 The Victorian Internet

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