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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/yutsi_beans on 2025-02-20 00:32:04+00:00.

Original Title: TIL optical telegraphs (at the turn of the 19th century) had many features now commonplace in modern networks, including control characters, routing, error control, flow control, message priority, and symbol rate control.