Hidden History: Driving the Last Spike of the Transcontinental Railroad was an Early Version of the Internet of Things

The story of driving the golden spike to symbolize the completion of the transcontinental railroad is famous in the US. What is not so well known is the story of how it also foreshadowed changes to come as an early version of both the Internet and the Internet of Things. But that was 1869, how can that possibly be?

Telegraph as Internet

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