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The Victorian Internet
by Tom Standage
An OK general history primer of the telegraph edge and the early industrial area of electricity.
Its far too brief and shallow for my liking, but i enjoyed reading it throughout. All the topics listed on the cover of the book are basically only mentioned in passing. Basically everything is mentioned in passing. I was particularly looking forward to hearing about proto-internet culturevis a vie telegraph operators, but very little is actuallly written about that in this book.
More in fact is written in the epilogue making comparison to the internet, than what came up earlier. Obviously an exercise in adwords.
While a good deal is written about the early pursuits of the telegraph (i particularly enjoyed the part about the optical telegraph), and pneumatic tubes, i feel its criminal to cover very little about Western Union or the relationship with of telegraphs and railroads.
I would recommend reading this as an introduction to deeper topics that can be read about on wikipedia.
Its far too brief and shallow for my liking, but i enjoyed reading it throughout. All the topics listed on the cover of the book are basically only mentioned in passing. Basically everything is mentioned in passing. I was particularly looking forward to hearing about proto-internet culturevis a vie telegraph operators, but very little is actuallly written about that in this book.
More in fact is written in the epilogue making comparison to the internet, than what came up earlier. Obviously an exercise in adwords.
While a good deal is written about the early pursuits of the telegraph (i particularly enjoyed the part about the optical telegraph), and pneumatic tubes, i feel its criminal to cover very little about Western Union or the relationship with of telegraphs and railroads.
I would recommend reading this as an introduction to deeper topics that can be read about on wikipedia.