Thanks to this, I’ve learned that Samuel Morse was an inveterate—and quite public—white supremacist, for whom the Know Nothings weren’t racist *enough*. In that, he’s part of the grand tradition of USian technologists who love to hate
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the story of the the 19th-century internet, the geniuses who built it, and the dummies who nearly destroyed it
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the story of the the 19th-century internet, the geniuses who built it, and the dummies who nearly destroyed it
PART 1 OF 4, out now for secret base’s patreon members:
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Anyway, history of technology is cool