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it stretched across Paris to Amsterdam to Venice and had branches in Finland, Denmark, Russia and

the success of the telegraph grew, in the mid 1830ies, the different network technologies were in Britain, George Murray invented a similar construction with wooden shutters in 1795 all over Europe, copies were quickly invented, acknowledging the military use the towers were quickly adapted and installed along France, Napoleon supported the installment later, Claude invented a system of towers in line, which conducted signals via the position of an arm construction on top the first telegraph was invented by two french brothers (Claude Chappe), with a system of panels, clocks and numbers (telegraph from greek, far writer) end of 18th century light and sound were faster, but had too many preconditions (be in ear- or eyesight) and like an electrical signal, they were very simple and didn’t contain many information The mother of all networks - for thousands of years a message took a day long to be transmitted a hundred miles (on a horse’s looking back can yield a perspective on the Internet today 1. the Internet users are the heirs of the telegraph it was the greatest revolution in communication since the printing press it let people communicate almost instantly across great distances and shrank the world Preface: - In the 19th century were not televisions, airplanes, computers, but an Internet - under Queen Victoria’s reign, the new communications technology of the telegraph was developed Download: victorian_internet The Victorian Internetīy Tom Standage Standage, Tom : The Victorian Internet - The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the NineteenthĬentury's On-Line Pioneers. New York : Walker Publishing Company, 1998.

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