I think @tomstandage has written the definitive book on “Internet history recapitulates telegraph history.” A favorite read of mine! Mind you, the book is Internet vs. “plain old” wired telegraph, not smartphone vs the wireless.
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Thanks! I did the whole “early wireless as social media” thing in my later book “Writing on the Wall” (2013), which is a sequel of sorts to “Victorian Internet”
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Amazing stuff!
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