1. which is not far off in terms of the technological advances it represented, the legal and political issues raised by the large corporations that came to own and control it, and even the disruption of social norms. The rise of acronyms and shortened slang, for instance, far predated today's emails and text messages; in the nineteenth century, grammarians bemoaned the impact that the telegraph was having on the English language given its incentive to create acronyms and slang to save on time in sending messages as well as cost (users were charged per letter in telegraph messages);One historian has referred to the telegraph as the "Victorian internet
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