[ih] early networking

[Dave Crocker]

On 4/14/2024 1:07 PM, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
>   It is unclear to me what precisely the solution to internetworking was?

Apparently there used to be at least some competition, with multiple 
telegraph companies.  I don't know if they interoperated or merely 
competed, but suspect that some amount of exchanging between them was 
needed.

    https://eh.net/encyclopedia/history-of-the-u-s-telegraph-industry/

Having just watch the movie Ithaca, however, I only saw competing for 
traffic.

d/

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Dave Crocker
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