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001			ocn875353814
003			OCoLC
005			20251028093342.0
008			140317t20141998nyua 001 0 eng
035			_a(Sirsi) i9781620405925
040			_aAU@ _beng _cAU@ _erda _dOCLCO _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dBDX _dTWC _dOCLCO _dZLM _dOCLCF _dVF$
019			_a849212508 _a849248658
020			_a9781620405925
020			_a162040592X
035			_a(OCoLC)875353814 _z(OCoLC)849212508 _z(OCoLC)849248658
090			_aHE 7631 _b.S677 2014
049			_aVF$A
100	1		_aStandage, Tom, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Victorian Internet : _bthe remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers / _cTom Standage.
250			_aPaperback edition.
264		1	_aNew York _bBloomsbury, _c2014.
264		4	_c1998.
300			_axix, 233 pages : _billustrations ; _c20 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes new Afterword.
500			_a"Foreword by Vinton Cerf, coinventor of the Internet" --Cover.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"The Victorian Internet "tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways." -- Publisher's website.
505	0		_aThe 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.
650		0	_aTelegraph _xHistory.
700	1		_aCerf, Vinton G., _d1943- _ewriter of added commentary.
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