Re: Network visibility

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Jay Hennigan wrote:
> On 10/20/21 10:30, Mel Beckman wrote:
> > Owen,
> >
> > LOL! Yeah, and in 1838 Samuel Morse’s telegraph system used 
> > electric impulses to transmit encoded messages over a wire to 
> > Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. Was/ that /the Internet?
>
> Nope. And it wasn't even the first digital encoding of text. Braille 
> preceded it, and arguably semaphore.
There's a wonderful book, "The Victorian Internet" - that talks about 
telegraphy, including optical telegraphy - and how the various telegraph 
networks were internetworked.

When it came to message traffic, it really was a lot like the modern 
Internet.

Miles Fidelman

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