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Tom Standage
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Tom Standage writes tomstandage.com, a personal blog at tomstandage.wordpress.com about history and culture. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The telegraph was the Victorian internet”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers point to Tom Standage's book pages, mainly The Victorian Internet on the telegraph and A History of the World in Six Glasses on drinks, as companion reading for articles on those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I am a journalist and author based in London. My speciality is the use of historical analogy in science, technology and business writing. I have done various jobs at The Economist over the years, where I'm now deputy editor with special responsibility for future-gazing and developing new products. I
Most-linked posts?
- The telegraph was the Victorian internet2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-05-12
What Hacker News says?
See also: A History of the World in Six Glasses https://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/a-history-of-the-wor... The book covers: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and cola. It was a fun read.
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on “Our 9000-Year Love Affair With Booze”Submitted The telegraph was the Victorian internet as a story · 32 points
HN discussionAnyone who likes this article may also enjoy The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage. It is about the human and cultural impact of the telegraph as much as the technology. The telegraph enabled instant communication, and when the first undersea cables were laid in the mid-1800s, that communication stretched from one continent to another. This changed many things. One of my favorite chapters is "Love on the Lines", ab…
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on “Mother Earth Mother Board (1996)”Submitted Share it like Cicero: How Roman authors used social networking as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"a new communications technology was developed that allowed people to communicate almost instantly across great distances, in effect shrinking the world faster and further than ever before. A world-wide communications network whose cables spanned continents and oceans, it revolutionised business practice, gave rise to new forms of crime, and inundated its users with a deluge of information. Romances blossomed over t…
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on “"We have no time to go below surfaces" (1891)”Submitted The distractions of social media, 1673 style as a story · 1 points
HN discussionStart from the beginning of the story to get all the context. It's an interesting read: https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/an-expediti... And if you like this, I recommend The Victorian Internet : https://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/the-victorian-intern... https://www.amazon.com/dp/162040592X
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on “Only Connect: on the automated telephone exchange”If you like this, you will surely enjoy The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage. It talks about the optical telegraph and the electric one, and more than the technology, the culture that developed around the telegraph. If nothing else, download the free Kindle sample, or read the preface and comments on Tom's site and see for yourself. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JW5WQSR/ https://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/the-…
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on “Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph”
