Introduction Imagine a world where it is possible to communicate instantaneously with someone thousands of miles away. Where people operate chat-rooms, have personalised addresses, so information can be routed more quickly. Where items can be purchased more quickly and cheaply and delivered to your door in a matter of days. This sounds like the world of today, but in fact, describes America of the middle nineteenth and early twentieth century where the medium was Morse …showed first 75 words of 3407 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3407 total…web based applications. The leap forward hasn't met it promise however, as industry standards for equipment, software and hardware, still have not been agreed. Until this problem has been met, we are still, relatively, in the Morse age. The need for all the major players, Microsoft, Macintosh, all the mobile telecom companies to agree on a single industry standard will eventually see the realising of the goal of total operability, anywhere anytime and any device.