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Author Standage, Tom.

Title The Victorian Internet : the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth centuryʼs on-line pioneers / Tom Standage.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Berkley Books, 1999.
©1998

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Location Call No. Status
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  384.1 ST    Check Shelf
Edition Berkley trade paperback edition.
Description ix, 227 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [214]-217) and index.
Contents The mother of all networks -- Strange, fierce fire -- Electric skeptics -- The thrill electric -- Wiring the world -- Steam-powered messages -- Codes, hackers, and cheats -- Love over the wires -- War and peace in the global village -- Information overload -- Decline and fall -- The legacy of the telegraph.
Subject Telegraph -- History.
ISBN 0425171698: $12.00
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