Wired love
by Ella Cheever Thayer · first published 1879
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I read Wired Love a while ago and was impressed with how light and easy to read it was, the whole thing felt really quite contemporary.
on “A Norwegian who knew his tortoises so well that he changed history” ↗…all of the people involved with it. If you want to know what it was like to be a telegraph operator, check out this cheesy 19th century novel about a romance that develops over the telegraph, called Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and dashes[2]. I don't know how accurate it is, but it was certainly entertaining. [1] https://www.kobo.com/CA/en/ebook/the-victorian-internet-1 [2] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24353
on “The world's first hack: the telegraph and the invention of privacy (2015)” ↗There's a charming book about a long-distance relationship between telegraph operators called Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. The writing itself isn't anything special, but it is remarkably prescient. Here's a particularly insightful quotation: > ... we will soon be able to do everything by electricity;…
on ““U Tr?”: Abbreviations Used by Early-20th-Century Telegraph Operators” ↗…Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer by Sandi Metz Fiction: Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Ella Cheever Thayer - I saw this mentioned in a HN comment[0]. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530693 Edited to fix formatting…
on “Ask HN: What books are you reading?” ↗…makes me appreciate the significance of the electric telegraph and of long-range communication that is not limited by the speed of any physical vehicle. I recently read a short romance novel (called "Wired Love") published in 1880 about two telegraph operators who meet online (well, on the wire), use spare time on the wire to talk (and flirt) with each other; and eventually fall in love -- before even having…
on “A Norwegian who knew his tortoises so well that he changed history” ↗Did you ever read the book Wired Love? It's about two telegraph operators falling in love via morse code. It's from the late 1800's. http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2013/07/wired_...
on “Show HN: App for Falling in Love” ↗Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (1879) describes a long distance romance conducted "online", from the point of view of a female telegraph operator, where neither party knew what the other looked like or…
on “How efficiently does Morse code encode letters?” ↗…replies. It was not as immediate and exciting as modern technology, but it was way more exciting than what previously existed. People even fell in love by telegraph. See, for example, the 1880 novel "Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes": https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/wired-love-romance...
on “Former Google and Facebook execs are sounding alarms about the power of tech” ↗You may also be familiar with the 1879 novel "Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes" - perhaps filling a similar fictional niche in its time that "You've Got Mail" did nearly 120 years later.
on “Radio was the original overhyped technology” ↗