Electric Telegraph

When you analyze the electric telegraph you will see that there are many ways that the electric telegraph is similar to the internet. One way that the electric telegraph and internet are alike is that both of these inventions were used as way to communicate news and entertainment. Also, just as communication through the web today has very many acronyms, so did the electric telegraph to make communication between people easier and faster. Lastly, they both have had a huge impact on how people all over the globe communicate with each other.
On the other hand, the electric telegraph and internet have many differences. One difference is that communication between people on the electric telegraph was wired from place to place, as the internet is mainly wireless communication from network to network. Secondly, with the telegraph having a wired connection, communication between humans was limited to a certain distance, as oppose to you being able to easily send an email to someone who is located anywhere in the world. Lastly, the telegraph was mainly used for sending individual messages, whereas since the invention of the internet it has had more uses than just communication, such as e-commerce and searching for information.
The thing that I found the most interesting about the telegraph is that when it was first invented it had wired connections and was very limited on the distance in which you could communicate message. It made it easy for you to communicate with someone who wasn't far away, but they still faced the problem of communicating with people greater than the distance which the line covered.