A Brief History of the Telegraph (opens in new tab)

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bediger40003y ago· 2 in thread

There were optical telegraphs before electrical: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph

"The Early History of Data Networks" is a good read on the topic: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Early_History_of_Da...

oldjavacoderOP3y ago

That's a mind blower, I did not know about it thank you.

bediger40003y ago

The coding for the optical telegraphs seemed primitive to me. I wonder if you couldn't come up with a system that mixed signals going both ways.

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oldjavacoderOP3y ago

I saw a picture of a stretch of road in the west and started thinking about the 1800's and the striking contrast between the wild and the technological American landscape. It turns out Google has an interesting site, linked.

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4 comments · 2 top-level

bediger40003y ago· 2 in thread

There were optical telegraphs before electrical: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph

"The Early History of Data Networks" is a good read on the topic: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Early_History_of_Da...

oldjavacoderOP3y ago

That's a mind blower, I did not know about it thank you.

bediger40003y ago

The coding for the optical telegraphs seemed primitive to me. I wonder if you couldn't come up with a system that mixed signals going both ways.

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oldjavacoderOP3y ago

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