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Also The Victorian Internet by Standage on the history of the telegraph: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T

• Stratoscope 4y ago
  One of my favorite books! Some years ago I bought a dozen extra copies to give away. Just last weekend I was hiking with a few friends. One mentioned that I'd given him a copy, and he started telling me stories from it. Especially what a revolution it was when you could communicate across the world in an instant. We got to talking about the history of undersea cables. I mentioned a very cool interactive map of the current fiber cables and promised I would look it up and send him a link. So, before I forget, here it is: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ https://www.submarinecablemap.com/