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The Victorian Internet is a term coined in the late 20th century to describe advanced 19th century telecommunications technologies such as the telegraph and pneumatic tubes. The idea embedded in the phrase is that instantaneous global communication is not a recent invention, but rather developed in the mid-19th century, and that the changes wrought by the telegraph outweigh the changes in modern society due to the Internet. In this view, the ability to communicate globally at all in real-time was a qualitative shift, while the modern Internet was merely a quantitative shift. The expression was used as a title of the book The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage.[1] According to Tom Standage in basic terms, the idea of the Victorian Internet was the idea that how information has been received throughout history ultimately depended on the way it was transported, thus this type of communication is not something that was not recent but has developed throughout history. The analogy between Victorian and electronic telecommunications technologies has also been made by Terry Pratchett in Discworld novels, where the semaphore system, the "clacks", and thus "c-commerce" is clearly a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Internet. [edit] References
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