Week 1: Course Introduction
Visions of the Internet
England’s Victorian Internet and Early Twentieth Century Fictions of a Future Internet


Additional Materials
Articles
Books and Stories
• Tom Standage. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers. Bloomsbury, 1999.
• E. M. Forster. “The Machine Stops,” in Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2001. [PDF] [Archive.org]
Podcasts
• “Victorian Internet,” All Things Considered, October 19, 1999.
• “Human Insecurity,” The Secret History of the Future, October 3, 2018.