The Victorian Internet

The Victorian Internet

By
Tom Standage
Tom Standage
1998

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217 books

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AronDanburg
Aron Danburg
First Person Singular: Stories
Themes and Variations
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Factfulness
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

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21 books

Hoopla

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Steve
Conversations
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Periodic Tales
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Victorian Internet
The Audacity of Hops

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18 books

To Read Non Fiction Narrative

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Kirill
Kolymskie rasskazy
Московский дневник 1994-1997
The Boy from Baby House 10: From the Nightmare of a Russian Orphanage to a New Life in America
Чернобилска молитва
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
The Choice
Бхагавад-гита

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1,067 books

History

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Carla
Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

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27 books

Research

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Emma
The Missing Ink
The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

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162 books

History

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CLYDE WISHAM
Citizen Soldiers
Band of Brothers
All the President's Men
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
A Short History of Nearly Everything

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228 books

Non Fiction

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CLYDE WISHAM
Armored cav
Five Patients
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Take Back Your Government
No Logo

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222 books

Audiobook

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CLYDE WISHAM
This Shattered World
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
This Night So Dark: A Starbound Short
These Broken Stars
The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
The Girl at the End of the World

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66 books

Science

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CLYDE WISHAM
T. rex and the crater of doom
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Silent Spring
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
The Selfish Gene
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

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5 books

Economics

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CLYDE WISHAM
The Fall of Rome
The Victorian Internet
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
How Innovation Works

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0 books

Owned

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The Mote in God's Eye
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Moon Over Soho
Hark! A Vagrant
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
Boneshaker

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157 books

Curiosity

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Aswin
Brainwashing : The science of thought control
A History of Mathematical Notations
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
Programming pearls
More programming pearls

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61 books

To Get

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Jan
Structures
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Our Final Invention
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
How to Think More About Sex
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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229 books

Non Fiction

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Anki
1776
At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Understanding Comics
The Knitter's Book of Yarn
Free-Range Knitter
Knitting in Plain English

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2,090 books

Status Own

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Anki
Mission of Honor
The Hittite
Heir of Novron
Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty

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140 books

Buddy Read

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Anki
A Prayer For Owen Meany
Master and Commander
The Count of Monte Cristo
Plain Kate
The Three Musketeers
Frogkisser!

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771 books

Uncat

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Sarah
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Atlas Shrugged
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass: Lavishly Illustrated with Interactive Elements
Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 1
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Stone of Farewell
BattleTech Legends: Wolf Pack

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73 books

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Sarah
Blue Moon Rising
Changes
Swords of Haven
Slashback
The Book of Lost Things
The Four Fingers of Death

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250 books

Owned

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Jack Baty
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Fahrenheit 451
Kafka on the Shore
The Elements of Style
The Handmaid's Tale

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371 books

Owned

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Daughter of the Empire
Iron Sunrise
The Evolutionary Void
Effective C++
Time
The Night Watch

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643 books

Genre Fiction

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Declare
Killing Floor
Pump Six and Other Stories
Neptune's Brood
Forever Peace
Round the Horne 1
Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories

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389 books

Sold

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Liam
Shadow of a Dark Queen
Rage of a Demon King
Krondor: The Betrayal
Miss Wyoming
Lord Foul's Bane
The Illearth War
Assassin's Apprentice

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128 books

Genre Reference

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C#
Applescript for the Internet
Internet Secrets
QuickTime for the Web, Second Edition: For Windows and Macintosh, Second Edition
The qmail Handbook
Why We Buy
The Victorian Internet

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490 books

Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Spiritomb
Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians
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