The Victorian Internet is a term coined in the late 20th century to describe advanced 19th century telecommunications technologies such as the telegraph and pneumatic tubes. The idea embedded in the phrase is that instantaneous global communication is not a recent invention, but rather developed in the mid-19th century, and that the changes wrought by the telegraph outweigh the changes in modern society due to the Internet. The ability to communicate globally at all in real-time is a qualitative shift, while the modern Internet is merely a quantitative shift. The expression was used as a title of the book ''The Victorian Internet'' by Tom Standage. The analogy between Victorian and electronic telecommunications technologies has also been made by Terry Pratchett in Discworld novels, where the optical telegraph system, the "clacks (Discworld)", and thus "c-commerce" is clearly a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Internet. ==External links== * [http://tomstandage.com/vicnet.html Tom Standage on the Victorian Internet] * [http://www.andreas.com/faq-steamnet.html Summary of the book: Victorian Internet]
Whn was this term coined? I've thrown in "late 20th C" for now, but was it in fact late 90s or early 2000s? "mid-1800s" -- surely if "victorian", this would mean midway in teh ''century''? On wikipedia, 1800s is a decade preceding the 1810s. Could someone who knows which the article means to refer to please clean up? -- User:Tarquin 22:30 Oct 6, 2002 (UTC) Means Mid 19th century, will fix User:DavidLevinson
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The Victorian Internet is a term coined in the late 20th century to describe advanced 19th century telecommunications technologies such as the telegraph and pneumatic tubes. The idea embedded in the phrase is that instantaneous global communication is not a recent invention, but rather developed in the mid-19th century, and that the changes wrought by the telegraph outweigh the changes in modern society due to the Internet. The ability to communicate globally at all in real-time is a qualitative shift, while the modern Internet is merely a quantitative shift. The expression was used as a title of the book ''The Victorian Internet'' by Tom Standage. The analogy between Victorian and electronic telecommunications technologies has also been made by Terry Pratchett in Discworld novels, where the optical telegraph system, the "clacks (Discworld)", and thus "c-commerce" is clearly a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Internet. ==External links== * [http://tomstandage.com/vicnet.html Tom Standage on the Victorian Internet] * [http://www.andreas.com/faq-steamnet.html Summary of the book: Victorian Internet]
Victorian Internet
Whn was this term coined? I've thrown in "late 20th C" for now, but was it in fact late 90s or early 2000s? "mid-1800s" -- surely if "victorian", this would mean midway in teh ''century''? On wikipedia, 1800s is a decade preceding the 1810s. Could someone who knows which the article means to refer to please clean up? -- User:Tarquin 22:30 Oct 6, 2002 (UTC) Means Mid 19th century, will fix User:DavidLevinson
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