The Victorian Internet
by Tom Standage
Rating: 5.0 / 5 · Read · Finished 2016-06-28
I love it when I learn that the technology of the past was more advanced than I thought it was. In the early 1800s, inventors were dealing with all the main problems you learn about in a networking class today: coding, routing, congestion control, encryption, compression, etc. This book touches on lots of interesting aspects of an important invention and draws comparisons with the Internet today. My only complaint is that it uses a lot of anecdotes which are probably apocryphal, but they’re fun to read anyway.