{"id":94989,"date":"2025-06-05T15:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=6286c3aa5e8db0e703794981683357d3"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T19:52:56","slug":"new-book-uncovers-radical-networks-that-existed-before-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=94989","title":{"rendered":"New book uncovers radical networks that existed before the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2025\/06\/05\/new-book-uncovers-radical-networks-that-existed-before-the-internet.html\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: I'm so excited for this to drop.  \nReading Writing Interfaces was delightful, I've read (and once or twice left notes on) her Internet postings preparing this one, and the content is right up my alley.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2025\/06\/05\/new-book-uncovers-radical-networks-that-existed-before-the-internet.html\" title=\"New book uncovers radical networks that existed before the internet\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/optical-networks.jpg?fit=1200%2C732&amp;quality=60&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson\" link_thumbnail=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/optical-networks.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=60&amp;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/optical-networks.jpg?resize=600%2C366&amp;quality=60&amp;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/optical-networks.jpg?resize=930%2C567&amp;quality=60&amp;ssl=1 930w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/optical-networks.jpg?resize=300%2C183&amp;quality=60&amp;ssl=1 300w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/optical-networks.jpg?resize=768%2C468&amp;quality=60&amp;ssl=1 768w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/optical-networks.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=60&amp;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/optical-networks.jpg?resize=600%2C366&amp;quality=60&amp;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/optical-networks.jpg?resize=930%2C567&amp;quality=60&amp;ssl=1 930w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/optical-networks.jpg?resize=300%2C183&amp;quality=60&amp;ssl=1 300w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/optical-networks.jpg?resize=768%2C468&amp;quality=60&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4jE4po2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook<\/a><\/em>, by Lori Emerson, is a new book that looks at alternative communication systems that existed outside mainstream channels. The illustrated book has examples like messages bounced off the moon's surface and telegraph signals sent through barbed wire telegraph. &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2025\/06\/05\/new-book-uncovers-radical-networks-that-existed-before-the-internet.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the rest <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2025\/06\/05\/new-book-uncovers-radical-networks-that-existed-before-the-internet.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New book uncovers radical networks that existed before the internet<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, by Lori Emerson, is a new book that looks at altern&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=94989\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}