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This piece belongs to the series "Stories of Technology"

Produced by Bill Hammack

Other pieces by William S. Hammack

Summary: The telegraph functioned just like the internet does today: It decreased the importance of geographical distance, led to new types of fraud, and promised to solve the world's problems.
 

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Skip Wood

Posted on July 09, 2015 at 12:47 PM | Permalink

Dated, but salvagable

Dated information about broadband makes the first graph obsolete, but picking up the piece after that first graph works.