Wiring up the "Victorian Internet"

From the BBC News article:

The world's first global communications system for exchanging text messages was not the internet nor the mobile phone.

It was the great engineering project undertaken 150 years ago to put wires across the globe.

Interesting read about how telegraph cables were laid around the time of the Civil War. Any techie worth their salt should know where all this wonderful technology comes from...here's a start.

Wiring up the "Victorian Internet"
[link courtesy BBC NEWS]