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purlgully 's review for:
The Victorian Internet
by Tom Standage
Interesting and entertaining but overall disappointing. Its basically a brief overview of the history of the telegraph and it rushes through a lot. Its also almost entirely centered on America and Britain with a little France it leaves out the challenges of building and staffing telegraph offices in remote areas. He mentioned places like India and Africa but doesn't go into how the technology was used as part of the wider colonisation effort which would have been interesting. This book was kind of like reading the Wikipedia page about the telegraph I was left feeling like I didn't actually learn much.