[HN Gopher] A quick history of digital communication before the ...
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       A quick history of digital communication before the internet (2017)
        
       Author : headalgorithm
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2022-01-17 17:47 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | taubek wrote:
       | I did not know that digital goes so many years back.i would have
       | never used this term for something that predates early electronic
       | computers.
        
         | ghaff wrote:
         | I would have called some of that stuff electronic, not digital.
         | (Like the telegraph.) TIL why the Pony Express lasted for such
         | a short time. I always thought that something so baked in
         | Americana lasting barely a year was sort of funny.
        
       | aborsy wrote:
       | This seems heavily Anglophone centric.
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       | A notable omission is reference to French inventor Claude Chappe,
       | who in 1792 demonstrated a free space optical communication
       | system.
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       | It was the first practical telecommunications system of the
       | industrial age, that eventually spanned all of France, until
       | replaced with electric telegraph in 1850s.
        
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