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Some of the early telegraph messages resembled text messaging: From 1890: The First Text Messages http://sundaymagazine.org/2010/08/from-1890-the-first-text-me
by panglott 10y ago
Some of the early telegraph messages resembled text messaging:
From 1890: The First Text Messages http://sundaymagazine.org/2010/08/from-1890-the-first-text-messages/ http://sundaymagazine.org/2010/08/from-1890-the-first-text-m...
LOL in the Age of the Telegraph https://scroll.in/article/752746/lol-in-the-age-of-the-telegraph https://scroll.in/article/752746/lol-in-the-age-of-the-teleg...
- AnOscelot 10y agoWired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (1879) describes a long distance romance conducted "online", from the point of view of a female telegraph operator, where neither party knew what the other looked like or even the sound of their voice. Describes the virtual communities of telegraph operators and the culture surrounding them. It's a wonderful book. http://www.kristinholt.com/archives/5686 http://www.kristinholt.com/archives/5686 -- a review of the book Copies can be found at archive.org, Gutenberg, and Amazon. What's also interesting to me are the telegraph hacks during the American Civil War. Tapping into enemy wires and sending misleading orders, or just listening in. Here's some discussion on it: http://civilwartalk.com/threads/hacking-into-the-telegraph-system.27243/ http://civilwartalk.com/threads/hacking-into-the-telegraph-s...