Thom reviewed The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
Review of 'The Victorian Internet' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Quick read from the master of lists, Tom Standage. Plenty of history from the world wide web (of wires) including anecdotes about online crime, banking and commerce, cryptography, message routing and online romance. The only thing lacking was spam - and man am I jealous about that.
Author argues that the telegraph did more to shrink the world than the internet has, and I am inclined to agree. That technology was developed to the point of being replaced by the telephone - will something similar happen to our beloved internet someday?