Mises Daily
Author:
Clifford F. Thies
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In The Victorian Internet (New York: Walker & Co., 1998), Tom Standage makes the point that the telegraph was the nation’s first internet. Regarding this, Standage is correct. The telegraph did, as the mail had not been able to do, tie the nation together. The telegraph not only increased the speed of communication, and lowered its cost, but it