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Internet Revolution Has Started 30 Years 2 Centuries Ago 12/02/2015 @PayPal Office SG By Mathieu François Director, Product at Epigami [email protected]

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What is the greatest communication disruption ever? …Internet? Since  writing…

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This  is  the  “Mother  of  all  Networks”

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From New York to Paris: Time required to send news?

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US Independence (1776) = 6 weeks It was before telegraph…

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Lincoln president election (1860) = 2 hours …It  was  after telegraph

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Kennedy president election (1960) = 1 second It was before Internet…

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Obama president election (2008) = 1 second …It  was  after Internet

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6 Weeks Æ 2 Hours 1 Second Æ 1 Second ??!!@$% =8-( So, which one is the greatest disruptor?

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I. The mother of all networks II. Hackers and geeks in the XIXth Century III. Internet revolution, really? 1865 vs 2015

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By the way, Telegraph is a French invention Optical telegraph used by Revolution and Napoleon Remind Minitel anyone?

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Remember,  Internet  =  “Interconnected  Networks”

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It’s  fair  to  call  it  the   “Victorian  Internet”

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2010  innovation:  “How do I share my pictures online with my friends?

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1860  innovation:  “Let’s  pull  a  6,000  km  telegraph   cable  across  the  Atlantic  Ocean”

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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…

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Asia/Australia connection via Singapore and Penang SG Telecom Hub already!

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Rubber was a strategic commodity, used for the cable insulation

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Telegraph lasted only 1 century, but it changed everything!

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I. The mother of all networks II. Hackers and geeks in the XIXth Century III. Internet revolution, really? 1865 vs 2015

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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…

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Here is the most famous Telegraph hacker By the way, he is a real m***** f***** but this is another story

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The sysadmins of the Telegraph...

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…  and  pre-Internet nerds: Telegraphers in remote outposts often preferred on- line chat to socializing in real life with the locals

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A key difference : many operators were ladies T_T

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I. The mother of all networks II. Hackers and geeks in the XIXth Century III. Internet revolution, really? 1865 vs 2015

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“The  Highway  of  Thought”  was the more poetic surname of Telegraph Information Superhighway?

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The Internet Telegraph, by linking everyone in a worldwide network, was expected to promote peace and democracy World Peace Utopia?

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New Telegraph companies became the source of insane speculation Stock market bubble?

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AKA  the  “International  Telegraph Union”  (1865) Standards organizations?

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Dots and Dashes versus 1s and 0s Digital?

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Routers? Trunking? Telegraph wires to send short "texting" digital data Pneumatic tubes to send longer messages and small items (even cats!)

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During quiet times and after business hours, operators on-line would break out the IMs and chatrooms Online Chat?

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"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?

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Thomas  Edison:  “Most  of  the  Tales of the Wires went unpublished because they were too rude or explicit” Online Sex?

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Online Wedding? 1840: the first online wedding, with the bride in Boston and the groom in New York

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1,500 telegraph operators remotely attended the last telegraph ceremony for Samuel Morse Social Network?

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Banks could send money via telegraph wire, leading to the foundation of Western Union E-Commerce?

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One of the first MiM attacks: operators of an optical telegraph were bribed so they altered business transaction information Online Fraud?

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Users developed their own cryptic code of "smileys" and abbreviated words to solve network limitations Compression? Encryption?

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Lincoln used the telegraph to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time Online President?

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Last and most advanced telegraphy mechanism designed (Phelps, 1880) Multimedia?

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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?

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Epilog

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Not even digital, what a shame! 1880 The Telegraph Killer

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What  if… Babbage’s  computers  had  gone  into  widespread  use?

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…Steampunk would not be a SciFi genre

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Sources 1/2 • Must-Read! • Great historical analogy book written with a delightful British style

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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

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Questions? Dinner / Makan ?