[ih] Invention of The Internet - circa 1920
Jaap Akkerhuis
jaap at NLnetLabs.nl
Tue Nov 28 06:28:16 PST 2023
vinton cerf via Internet-history writes:
> Didn't the Rothschild's set up a semaphore system to relay stock market
> information faster than other means, to their advantage?
As a kid I was fascinated by the whole idea of Optical telegraph.
The Optical telegrph has a long history, see also
https://www.academia.edu/19258586/The_First_Data_Networks or the
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph.
jaap
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