Standage, Tom,   1969-  <br/><br/>
The Victorian internet:   the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nentienth century's on-line pioneers / 
Tom Standage. 
 - New York :  Walker and Co.,  cop. 1998. 
 - ix, 227 pages :  ilustrations ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>The mother of all networks -- Strange, fierce fire -- Electric skeptics -- The thrill electric -- Wiring the world -- Steam-powered messages -- Codes, hackers, and cheats -- Love over the wires -- War and peace in the global village -- Information overload -- Decline and fall -- The legacy of the telegraph. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0802713424 9780802713421 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Telegraph--History.<br/>Telégrafo --Historia 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TK 5115  / S785v 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>384.109