"The Victorian internet" by Mathieu Francois

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1. Internet Revolution Has Started 30 Years 2 Centuries Ago 12/02/2015 @PayPal Office SG By Mathieu François Director, Product at Epigami mat@epigami.com
4. What is the greatest communication disruption ever? …Internet? Since  writing…
5. This  is  the  “Mother  of  all  Networks”
6. From New York to Paris: Time required to send news?
7. US Independence (1776) = 6 weeks It was before telegraph…
8. Lincoln president election (1860) = 2 hours …It  was  after telegraph
9. Kennedy president election (1960) = 1 second It was before Internet…
10. Obama president election (2008) = 1 second …It  was  after Internet
11. 6 Weeks Æ 2 Hours 1 Second Æ 1 Second ??!!@$% =8-( So, which one is the greatest disruptor?
12. I. The mother of all networks II. Hackers and geeks in the XIXth Century III. Internet revolution, really? 1865 vs 2015
13. By the way, Telegraph is a French invention Optical telegraph used by Revolution and Napoleon Remind Minitel anyone?
14. Remember,  Internet  =  “Interconnected  Networks”
15. It’s  fair  to  call  it  the   “Victorian  Internet”
16. 2010  innovation:  “How do I share my pictures online with my friends?
17. 1860  innovation:  “Let’s  pull  a  6,000  km  telegraph   cable  across  the  Atlantic  Ocean”
18. Brunel, one of the crazy guys: his giant ship was reconverted for cable laying The  “Death  Star”  of  XIXth Century Watch  TED  “Tim  Brown  urges   designers  to  think  big”  for  more…
19. Asia/Australia connection via Singapore and Penang SG Telecom Hub already!
20. Rubber was a strategic commodity, used for the cable insulation
21. Telegraph lasted only 1 century, but it changed everything!
22. I. The mother of all networks II. Hackers and geeks in the XIXth Century III. Internet revolution, really? 1865 vs 2015
23. There was an elitist hacker/geek culture among the Telegraph operators community Your ability was evaluated based on your speed and accuracy to send  messages…
24. Here is the most famous Telegraph hacker By the way, he is a real m***** f***** but this is another story
25. The sysadmins of the Telegraph...
26. …  and  pre-Internet nerds: Telegraphers in remote outposts often preferred on- line chat to socializing in real life with the locals
27. A key difference : many operators were ladies T_T
28. I. The mother of all networks II. Hackers and geeks in the XIXth Century III. Internet revolution, really? 1865 vs 2015
29. “The  Highway  of  Thought”  was the more poetic surname of Telegraph Information Superhighway?
30. The Internet Telegraph, by linking everyone in a worldwide network, was expected to promote peace and democracy World Peace Utopia?
31. New Telegraph companies became the source of insane speculation Stock market bubble?
32. AKA  the  “International  Telegraph Union”  (1865) Standards organizations?
33. Dots and Dashes versus 1s and 0s Digital?
34. Routers? Trunking? Telegraph wires to send short "texting" digital data Pneumatic tubes to send longer messages and small items (even cats!)
35. During quiet times and after business hours, operators on-line would break out the IMs and chatrooms Online Chat?
36. "Ordinarily an operator can tell a woman the moment he hears her working the wire  […]  He  tells by her touch on the key. Women, as a rule, do not touch the key of their instruments as firmly as men do" Online Dating?
37. Thomas  Edison:  “Most  of  the  Tales of the Wires went unpublished because they were too rude or explicit” Online Sex?
38. Online Wedding? 1840: the first online wedding, with the bride in Boston and the groom in New York
39. 1,500 telegraph operators remotely attended the last telegraph ceremony for Samuel Morse Social Network?
40. Banks could send money via telegraph wire, leading to the foundation of Western Union E-Commerce?
41. One of the first MiM attacks: operators of an optical telegraph were bribed so they altered business transaction information Online Fraud?
42. Users developed their own cryptic code of "smileys" and abbreviated words to solve network limitations Compression? Encryption?
43. Lincoln used the telegraph to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time Online President?
44. Last and most advanced telegraphy mechanism designed (Phelps, 1880) Multimedia?
45. Telegraph was perceived as a major threat for newspapers…  the  number  of  current  newspapers  with   “Telegraph”  in  their  title  proves  the  contrary Threat for newspapers industry?
46. Epilog
47. Not even digital, what a shame! 1880 The Telegraph Killer
48. What  if… Babbage’s  computers  had  gone  into  widespread  use?
49. …Steampunk would not be a SciFi genre
50. Sources 1/2 • Must-Read! • Great historical analogy book written with a delightful British style
51. Sources 2/2 • Mother Earth Mother Board – (looong) but very insightful article about the cabling industry challenges by the Science-Fiction author Neal Stephenson • How the World Was One: Towards the Tele- Family of Man – Sir Arthur C. Clarke elaborated similar theories • Plyojump - Computer History • Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails
52. Questions? Dinner / Makan ?