The early history of data networks
by Gerard J. Holzmann · first published 1995
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This is a nice article about early communications using electrical circuits, but doesn't deliver on the promise of the title. For that I recommend "The Early History of Data Networks" by Gerard Holzmann (http://spinroot.com/gerard/hist.html) or the short paper "Data Communications: The First 2500 Years" (http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/hamburg94b.pdf).
on “On the origins of serial communications and data encoding” ↗…Communications - The First 2500 Years G.J. Holzmann Proc. IFIP World Computer Congress, Hamburg Germany, August 1994, (Invited paper). http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/hamburg94b.pdf The book: The Early History of Data Networks G.J. Holzmann and B. Pehrson IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos CA, (John Wiley & Sons), October 1994. The basic ideas of relaying, encoding, separation of control/data information, error…
on “Why didn't the Romans invent the Internet?” ↗A good related book written by Gerard Holzmann and Bjorn Pehrson: The early history of data networks https://archive.org/details/earlyhistoryofda0000holz
on “X-Clacks-Overhead” ↗There were optical telegraphs before electrical: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph "The Early History of Data Networks" is a good read on the topic: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Early_History_of_Da...
on “A Brief History of the Telegraph” ↗