维多利亚时代的互联网
The Victorian Internet
Tom Standage · 初版 1998 年
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为什么值得读
- 揭示维多利亚电报狂热与现代互联网的相似
- 包含通过电报恋爱与密码本暗号等趣味细节
- 篇幅适中，读起来轻松有趣
The Victorian Internet讲述了电报的诞生及其非凡影响，以及开创这一事业的远见者、怪人与奇才们的故事。从18世纪通过实验证明电可以远距离传输的法国科学家Jean-Antoine Nollet，到1837年研制出首台实用电报机的Samuel F. B. Morse，再到从电报业开启职业生涯并借由在她手上敲击摩尔斯电码来求婚的Thomas Edison，Tom Standage精彩纷呈地讲述了科学发现、技术巧思的故事
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……Whatsapp 之类的东西，都被看作是互联网创造自由和社会乌托邦力量的体现。这是一种根深蒂固的技术乌托邦主义。你可以去读读汤姆·斯丹迪奇（Tom Standage）1998 年的力作《维多利亚时代的互联网》（The Victorian Internet），讲的是维多利亚时代电报的普及。当年人们谈论电报改变社会的能力时，说的很多话跟后来人们对互联网的评价如出一辙：https://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Internet-Remarkable-Ninetee...
…Whatsapp, etc, were symptomatic of the Internet's power to create freedom and social utopia. It's part of a persistent strain of technoutopianism. You might read Tom Standage's excellent 1998 book "The Victorian Internet", which talks about the adoption of the telegraph during the Victorian era. Many of the same things people said about the Internet's power to change society were said about the telegraph: https://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Internet-Remarkable-Ninetee...
这是 1901 年版本的地图：http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/1901_East... 还有一本多少相关的绝妙好书叫《维多利亚时代的互联网》：http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802716040/ 如果你曾经好奇互联网到底是不是“一系列管子（a series of tubes）”，喏，管子在这里：http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/f... 那……
Here's a 1901 version of the map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/1901_East... And somewhat related, a wonderful book called The Victorian Internet: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802716040/ If you ever wondered whether the Internet really is a "series of tubes", here are the tubes: http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/f... That…
《维多利亚时代的互联网》是一本很有趣且读起来相当快的书。去看看吧。http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Internet
The Victorian Internet is an interesting and fairly quick read. Check it out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Internet
读了汤姆·斯丹迪奇的《维多利亚时代的互联网》之后，这个故事听起来相当可信，尤其是第八章“电线上的情缘”。那是我最喜欢的书之一（而且终于出 Kindle 版了！）。别光听我说，看看这几条书评吧：http://www.amazon.com/The-Victorian-Internet/dp/B002STNBKM/…
This story sounds pretty believable after reading Tom Standage's The Victorian Internet, especially Chapter 8, "Love over the Wires". That's one of my favorite books (and finally available in a Kindle edition!). Don't take my word for it, read a few of the reviews: http://www.amazon.com/The-Victorian-Internet/dp/B002STNBKM/…
……用单个词代替常用短语。显然双方必须使用同一本密码本，不出所料，电报公司试图禁止这种做法。[1] 我记得这是在汤姆·斯丹迪奇的《维多利亚时代的互联网》里看到的。顺便说一句，非常有趣的一本书。
…substituting single words for common phrases. Obviously both parties needed to use the same code book, and unsurprisingly the telegraph companies tried to ban the practice. [1] I think this was in The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage. A very interesting read btw.
我是这篇博文的作者，感谢提到《维多利亚时代的互联网》。我多年前读过，非常喜欢，但写这篇时没想到引用它。我读过《空中帝国》（Empire of the Air）和《大家好！》（Hello, everybody!），还有一些早期的无线电专业期刊（感谢……
Author of this blog post here, thank you for mentioning The Victorian Internet. I’d read that years back, deeply enjoyed it, but didn’t think to reference it in this piece. I’d read Empire of the Air and Hello, everybody! along with a number of older radio-focused journals (thanks,…