Telefon Hírmondó, the 19th Century Internet

At the end of the 19th century, the dream of a Hungarian engineer became a network that serving content through the telephone line.

The 19th century saw the birth of the first large-scale communications networks that used technology as a means of improving the transmission of information and human relations. First came the optical telegraph networks, then the electric telegraph reigned, and finally, as the century drew to a close, something wonderful was on the horizon: the wireless telegraphy and the radio broadcasting. Beyond all that, when another…