[ih] Invention of The Internet - circa 1920

[Brian E Carpenter]

I suspect that native American smoke signals, and Swiss alpenhorn signalling and yodelling, would count.

When the Spanish Armada invaded Britain in 1588, the warning was sent to London and around the country by a series of hill-top beacon fires. That's a torn-tape system even if it only conveys one bit, and the idea goes back at least to the Peloponnesian War and to the Han dynasty in China. Lots more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon.

Regards
    Brian Carpenter

On 29-Nov-23 03:23, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> On 11/28/2023 6:14 AM, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
>> Didn't the Rothschild's set up a semaphore system to relay stock
>> market information faster than other means, to their advantage?
> 
> As soon as that sort of tech comes into the mix, didn't the Greeks and
> Romans use a bonfire and/or flag system for relayed signaling over
> distances?
> 
> d/
>