Thanks! :-) It's been brewing in my head for a while and I've written out shorter snippets of similar ideas over the course of the past few years.

I've taken some liberties and likely made some mistakes, but it's aping the kind of "history of technology in its social context" that I love to read about.

I am actively taking suggestions for similar reads - one I love off the top of my head is "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/review-of-the-vi...