by Tom Standage · Phoenix Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753807033
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«The Victorian Internet» is the historical essay by Tom Standage, published by Phoenix Books in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Tom Standage narrates the history of the telegraph and the pioneers who drove its worldwide expansion in the nineteenth century. He shows how that technology aroused enthusiasm, social panic and skepticism similar to those surrounding the internet today, and how it transformed business, crime and personal relationships in the Victorian world.
The full subtitle is 'The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's Online Pioneers'. The work falls within the fields of the history of technology and telecommunications.
For those interested in the history of technology who want to see in the telegraph the Victorian precedent of current debates about the internet.
