What if part of The MATRIX program was set in-between the 1860s and the late 1890s?

 https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/1temw98/in_the_matrix_why_didnt_they_just_create_a_matrix/ 

The_Victorian_Internet (1998 book) 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Map_showing_overland_Pacific_Telegraph_from_San_Francisco_to_Moscow%2C_submitted_to_the_Committee_on_Commerce_with_a_petit_-_NARA_-_306678.tif.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Internet#Contents 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Transatlantic_submarine_cable_map.jpg/960px-Transatlantic_submarine_cable_map.jpg (1858) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Union_Telegraph_Building (1875)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/1891_Telegraph_Lines.jpg 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_telegraph#Oceanic_telegraph_cables 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable#Cable_to_India,_Singapore,_East_Asia_and_Australia 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/1901_Eastern_Telegraph_cables.png/960px-1901_Eastern_Telegraph_cables.png 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_network 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/World_map_of_submarine_cables.png/960px-World_map_of_submarine_cables.png (2007)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable#Optical_telecommunications_cables 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Submarine_cable_map_umap.png/960px-Submarine_cable_map_umap.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=thumbnail (2015) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable#Investment_and_finances 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/African_undersea_cables.png/960px-African_undersea_cables.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable#Arctic