Eventually the telegraph lines became the telephone lines.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6417091-from-the-telegraph-to-the-internet
It was realized that pictures as well as sound could be transmitted through these lines.
https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/time-capsule/150-years/back-1830-1860
Entire data-streams of information could be transmitted through cables and beams of energy and eventually Fiber-optic_communication took off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_fiber#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communication#Background
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_24_in_Michigan "In Michigan, it is also known as Telegraph Road and runs for 79.828 miles (128.471 km) as a major north–south state trunkline highway from Bedford Township at the Ohio state line through Metro Detroit."
https://www.frrandp.com/2021/09/telegraph-road.html
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4E_924b9SU , https://culture.fandom.com/wiki/Telegraph_Road_(song)
Dire Straits-Telegraph Road Live- aLCHEMY Tour 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Wp2ASqyxI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TTAXENxbM0 , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9HKX4sDEYdgDEQTV9iy9yw/videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_over_Gold#Background , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_over_Gold#Track_listing
https://www.youtube.com/c/OfficialMarkKnopfler/videos If a guitarist can have a signiture song, this is it for MK.
The Identity of Dire Straits's Telegraph Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5PD20rVaKk , https://www.youtube.com/c/Pseudiom/videos
Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77R1Wp6Y_5Y ELO https://www.youtube.com/user/eloofficial/videos
Jeff Lynne's ELO - Telephone Line (Live at Wembley Stadium) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKElk9zTB04
Telephone Line - Jeff Lynne (Acoustic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRfW5Nahgc4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Line_(song)
Sugarloaf - Don't Call Us, We'll Call You (1974)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Call_Us,_We'll_Call_You
Sugarloaf - don't call us, we'll call you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4njPe2_rho video
Sugarloaf & Jerry Corbetta - Don`t call us , we`ll call you (Promo 1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvEQnVkV-28
Don't Call Us, We'll Call You (Re-Recorded / Remastered) · Sugarloaf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mVMvfqnUWs
Wichita Lineman by Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell (1968)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Lineman , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxSarBcsKLU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Lineman#Background_and_content
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Lineman , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8P_xTBpAcY , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Lineman_(album)
https://americansongwriter.com/glen-campbell-wichita-lineman-behind-the-song
So many songs have been written about technology and communication through the decades.
In the early 1990s, U2 would start channeling the Digital MATRIX ZOO of entertainment.
https://medium.com/@james.clark/zoo-tv-a-masterpiece-of-multidisciplinary-art-87f92f0b3ca8
http://tech.mit.edu/V112/N15/u2.15a.html
U2 ZOO TV Behind the stage (Part1/2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtiqXtEX9Vs
