The Victorian internet : the remarkable story of the telegraph and nineteenth century's on-line pioneers / Tom Standage.
Pubblicazione:
New York : Berkley, 1999.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 227 p. : ill., ritr. ; 19 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. 1. The mother of all networks 2. Strange, fierce fire 3. Electric skeptics 4. The thrill electric 5. Wiring the world 6. Steam-powered messages 7. Codes, hackers and cheats 8. Love over the wires 9. War and peace in the global village 10. Information overload 11. Decline and fall 12. The legacy of the telegraph. Epilogue. Source. Acknowledgments. Index
ISBN:
0425171698
Discipline:
Ingegneria elettrotecnica e delle comunicazioni--Studi.
