To: fanfan; NicknamedBob
That is because they didn't have an Internet a hundred years ago, silly! Oh yes they did!
Oh course, they hadn't invented packet-switching, packet fragmentation, TCP/IP, HTTP and web browsers yet so it was a little limited. And it notes there wasn't sufficient R&Dfunding to develop mobile routers to speed deployment of the network.
Some things never change.
1,156 posted on
04/13/2008 4:15:36 PM PDT by
sionnsar
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To: sionnsar
Your link made me look it up to understand it better. Thanks!
Optical telegraphy dates from ancient times, in the form of hydraulic telegraphs, torches (as used by ancient Greeks) and smoke signals.
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1,163 posted on
04/13/2008 4:24:21 PM PDT by
fanfan
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