Going Postal by Terry Pratchett is a story involving a competition between a traditional post office and a light-based telegraph system called "clacks." You mig

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett is a story involving a competition between a traditional post office and a light-based telegraph system called "clacks." You might enjoy the book and/or television adaptation. After his death a few years ago, an idea from the book was actually implemented on the internet and is the reason you see "GNU Terry Pratchett" around.[0][1] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/mar/17/terry-pratchetts-name-lives-on-in-the-clacks-with-hidden-web-code https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/mar/17/terr... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry_pratchett/ https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry...