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This seems heavily Anglophone centric. A notable omission is reference to French inventor Claude Chappe, who in 1792 demonstrated a free space optical communic
by aborsy 5y ago
This seems heavily Anglophone centric.
A notable omission is reference to French inventor Claude Chappe, who in 1792 demonstrated a free space optical communication system.
It was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age, that eventually spanned all of France, until replaced with electric telegraph in 1850s.
- agumonkey 5y agoSystem which was a very early communication hack target https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratage_du_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9graphe_Chappe https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratage_du_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9gr... Sorry for the lack of English wiki article, basically two brothers bribed an operator to embed financial information as typos in telecommunications so they could be ahead of other investors