Monday, October 24, 2011

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  • LOS ANGELES—Long before there was an Internet or an iPad, before people were social networking and instant messaging, Americans had already gotten wired.


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    Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental telegraph. From sea to sea, it electronically knitted together a nation that was simultaneously tearing itself apart, North and South, in the Civil War.

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