Electric Telegraph vs. The Internet

Similarities to the Internet

Both the Electric Telegraph and the Internet connected the world. They both allow people to receive information quickly from far-away places.
Both the Internet and the Telegraph are affected by the amount of people using them at once. When there is a high amount of traffic, both can take no longer to send and receive information.
3) Both the Telegraph and the Internet are used in business. The Telegraph was often often as important to businesses as the Internet is today.


Different from the Internet
The Telegraph was more controllable and easily censored than the Internet. Telegraph services were typically owned by the government.
 Users of the Telegraph paid by the amount of words in the Telegram they sent. Users of the Internet typically pay a set amount each month no matter how much they use it. Also, the Internet is free in many places   
The Telegraph was used to send and receive text messages while the Internet can send more than just words. Via the Internet, videos, recordings, and more can be sent to others.   



I was most surprised to discover that communication was much more regulated with the Telegraph than the Internet.