Network Programming with Rust

A brief history of networks

The modern internet has revolutionized how we communicate with one another. However, it had humble beginnings in the Victorian era. One of the earliest precursors to the internet was telegraph networks which were operational as early as 1850. Back then, it used to take 10 days to send a message from Europe to North America by sea. Telegraph networks reduced that to 17 hours. By the late 19th century, the telegraph was a fully successful communication technology that was used widely in the two world wars. Around that time, people started building computers to help in cracking enemy codes. Unlike our modern mobile phones and laptops, those computing machines were often huge and needed specialized environments to ...