The first online chess game happened in December 1844

On 26 November 1844, two chess teams faced off while separated by 60 kilometers, as the Washington Chess Club played a team in Baltimore using the newly built electrical telegraph. Three consulting ...
The New York Times

FROM THE FIRST CLICK OF THE TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT TO THE WIRELESS MESSAGE OF TO-DAY; It Was in May, 1844, that Morse Sent the First Dispatch Between New York and ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Electronic Design

The Telegraph: The First Internet

The telegraph started it all. It was the first electronic communications system and the first network. And we got it before the telephone, electrical power wiring, and radio. What reminded me of that ...
AOL

In 1844, Chess Was Already Online

On 18 November 1844, the Washington Chess Club challenged its counterparts in Baltimore to a match. Two teams were organized, and at 4 p.m. on 26 November, the first game commenced with three ...
The Baltimore Sun

Samuel F.B. Morse gave the first public telegraph demonstration 178 years ago in Baltimore. The federal government was less than impressed.

A neglected anniversary of sorts came and went May 24; it was the first public demonstration of Samuel F.B. Morse’s telegraph 178 years ago at B&O Mount Clare Station, today the home of the Baltimore ...
New Atlas

Plug pulled on the world's last commercial electric telegraph system

After linking the world for 167 years, the commercial electric telegraph is no more. The speed with which electromagnetic telegraph systems took over both short- and long-distance communication in the ...