+1 for The Victorian Internet. A fascinating book. His descriptions of how the telegraph disrupted people's existing understanding of distance and time/simulta

+1 for The Victorian Internet. A fascinating book. His descriptions of how the telegraph disrupted people's existing understanding of distance and time/simultaneity are very interesting. People thinking that the physical telegraph form was transmitted, rather than just its content, and demanding to telegraph other physical objects. Also the use of commercially published word-books to shorten and obfuscate long telegraph messages is reminiscent of data compression and cryptography today.