Download or read book The Victorian Internet written by Tom Standage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new paperback edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.