Comment by WalterBright
8 hours ago
The digital internet began with the telegraphy network in the early 1800s.
Many, many network protocols were developed and used.
8 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.
It wasn't binary nor electrical, but it was already digital. Excluding it would be arbitrarily restrictive.
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.