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The First Global Internet — Without the Internet: The Transatlantic Telegraph Cable (1858) In August 1858, Britain and the U.S. were connected for the first time by a telegraph cable laid across the Atlantic Ocean floor. A technological breakthrough: messages that once took weeks by ship now traveled in minutes. Queen Victoria sent greetings to U.S. President James Buchanan — the message took 17 hours, but it was still a revolution. Fun fact: After about 400 messages, the cable burned out due to excessive voltage. It was dubbed the “failure of the century” — until 1866, when a reliable line was finally completed. But by then, the world had already changed: this was the first step toward global instant communication.
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