The Madness of Chinatown: Chinese Exclusion during 1880s San Francisco
America in the 1880s On January 1 st , 1983, ARPANET adopted a “communications model” built by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf that forever changed the world: the Internet. Today we live in a society where the internet is indistinguishable from the air: 5G waves flow through our brains 24 hours a day, whether we are calling people on our cell phones, driving our cars, relaxing with a good book, or taking a bath. For many people, the realization that they suddenly don’t have access to the internet is a cause for questioning the meaning of life: instant feelings of regret, sadness, and disconnection erupt, which cannot be resolved until a connection is re-established and the internet is back. However, 100 years before the advent of the internet, a more powerful revolution was occurring: the telephone. The inventor Alexander Graham Bell mournfully stated that he was “sick of the telephone” only two years after he had revealed the invention at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. [1] Afte...
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