The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

The Victorian Internet

Tom Standage with Derek Perkins (Narrator)

5 hours, 22 minutes first pub 1998 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history science technology informative slow-paced
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For centuries people communicated across distances only as quickly as the fastest ship or horse could travel. Generations of innovators tried and failed to develop speedier messaging devices. But in the mid-1800s, a few extraordinary pioneers at l...

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