Dot-Dash to Dot.Com How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet /

• Main Author: Wheen, Andrew (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer communication systems.; Computers.; Electronic circuits.; Popular works.; Electrical engineering.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; History of Computing.; Computer Communication Networks.; Electronic Circuits and Devices.; Popular Science, general.

The profusion of websites and applications that characterise the modern Internet may seem a far cry from the primitive telegraph system of the late 1830s. There is, however, a direct link. The invention of the electric telegraph paved the way for telephone networks which, in turn, laid the foundatio...