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To: Brandonmark

An even earlier form of wireless communication. Some say it was the first "internet."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_line

62 posted on 04/03/2011 2:54:33 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)

To: abb

I just read “The Victorian Internet.” There were 1,000 such telegraph stations in Europe.

72 posted on 04/03/2011 4:33:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

To: abb

What was the bandwidth on that thing? About 6 letters a minute? 1 Kbps?

78 posted on 04/03/2011 5:52:56 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!

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