If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…
By the 1890s, the barbed wire industry had become wealthy enough and powerful enough that they effectively quelled all opposition to the wire.
It (barbed wire) also played a significant role in “settling” the American west by violently asserting individual ownership over land that was already occupied by Native Americans.
The usual american story.