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Author Standage, Tom.

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

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Berkley Books, 1999, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  621.38309 St24v  1999    ---  Available
Edition Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Description ix, 227 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [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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