How the Internet Saved the Lunatic Express in 1898
Summary
On the receiving end is perhaps your spouse at work or at home, casually checking the family e-mail between household chores, or a teenager reluctantly glancing up to see a new e-mail alert in the task bar above his or her MySpace page.In the days of single track systems, train drivers had to know for certain whether a switch was open or closed, otherwise a collision and loss of life would result.### Richmond, VA, October 11, 2006 --( PR.com )-- Stories abound of how the Internet intercedes in daily life, a lifesaving message desperately tapped out by someone in a life-threatening situation illustrates another wonder of the marvelous world of networking.On the receiving end is perhaps your spouse at work or at home, casually checking the family e-mail between household chores, or a teenager reluctantly glancing up to see a new e-mail alert in the task bar above his or her MySpace page.“Help!” the message is screaming at you…A wonder of the modern world, or is it?Consider the first e-mail system, the telegraph, the electromechanical marvel that opened the first possibility of long-range, two-way messaging, the Victorian version of IM.In the days of single track systems, train drivers had to know for certain whether a switch was open or closed, otherwise a collision and loss of life would result.