{"id":163,"date":"2025-04-05T18:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/?p=163"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:16:20","slug":"ahoy-hoy-notes-on-the-history-of-human-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/ahoy-hoy-notes-on-the-history-of-human-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahoy-hoy. Notes on the history of human communications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This book tells the often surprising, sometimes humorous, always interesting, stories of how human communications have developed. From prehistoric rock art, the alphabet, surveillance techniques gone wrong, strange military experiments (including flushing grenades down aircraft toilets), the first large scale modern network; used to take back control of a countries copper mines, to the modern internet and Wu related conspiracy theories. Find out how communications tools have been used for nefarious means, and the future implications of using these tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This book tells the often surprising, sometimes humorous, always interesting, stories of how human communications have developed. From prehistoric rock art, the alphabet, surveillance techniques gone wrong, strange military experiments (including flushing grenades down aircraft toilets), the first large scale modern network; used to take back control of a countries copper mines, to the modern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}