Comment by WalterBright
5 hours ago
The digital internet began with the telegraphy network in the early 1800s.
Many, many network protocols were developed and used.
5 hours ago
The digital internet began with the telegraphy network in the early 1800s.
Many, many network protocols were developed and used.
> with the telegraphy network in the early 1800s.
Late 1700 actually, and war was indeed a key motivation for the deployment of the Télégraphe Chappe.
See "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/162040592X
Télégraphe Chappe was a semaphore system using flags. It was not an electrical telegraph, nor was it binary.
Really? That is so interesting - which ones? Any ancestors of commonly used ones today?
Off the top of my head BIX, Prodigy, Compuserve, MCIMail, BBS, Ethernet, Token Ring, $25 Network, AOL, Timeshare, Kermit, Fax
Anyone with 2+ computers immediately thought about connecting them.