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The internet in a cup

机译：杯中的互联网

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Where do you go when you want to know the latest business news, follow commodity prices, keep up with political gossip, find out what others think of a new book, or stay abreast of the latest scientific and technological developments? Today, the answer is obvious: you log on to the internet. Three centuries ago, the answer was just as easy: you went to a coffee-house. There, for the price of a cup of coffee, you could read the latest pamphlets, catch up on news and gossip, attend scientific lectures, strike business deals, or chat with like-minded people about literature or politics. The coffee-houses that sprang up across Europe, starting around 1650, functioned as information exchanges for writers, politicians, businessmen and scientists. Like today's websites, weblogs and discussion boards, coffee-houses were lively and often unreliable sources of information that typically specialised in a particular topic or political viewpoint. They were outlets for a stream of newsletters, pamphlets, advertising free-sheets and broadsides. Depending on the interests of their customers, some coffeehouses displayed commodity prices, share prices and shipping lists, whereas others provided foreign newsletters filled with coffee-house gossip from abroad. Rumours, news and gossip were also carried between coffee-houses by their patrons, and sometimes runners would flit from one coffee-house to another within a particular city to report major events such as the outbreak of a war or the death of a head of state. Coffee-houses were centres of scientific education, literary and philosophical speculation, commercial innovation and, sometimes, political fermentation. Collectively, Europe's interconnected web of coffee-houses formed the internet of the Enlightenment era.
机译：当您想了解最新的商业新闻，关注大宗商品价格，跟上政治八卦，了解其他人对一本新书的看法或紧跟最新的科学技术发展时，该去哪儿？今天，答案很明显：您登录到互联网。三个世纪前，答案很简单：您去了一家咖啡店。在这里，您可以以一杯咖啡的价格阅读最新的小册子，赶上新闻和八卦，参加科学讲座，达成商业交易或与志趣相投的人谈论文学或政治。始于1650年左右的咖啡馆遍布欧洲，是作家，政客，商人和科学家之间的信息交流场所。像今天的网站，博客和讨论区一样，咖啡馆是活跃且通常不可靠的信息来源，通常专门针对特定主题或政治观点。它们是新闻通讯，小册子，广告免费报纸和彩页的来源。根据客户的兴趣，一些咖啡馆显示商品价格，股价和运输清单，而其他咖啡馆则提供外国通讯，里面充斥着来自国外的咖啡馆闲话。顾客在咖啡馆之间还进行谣言，新闻和八卦，有时跑步者会从一个咖啡馆到特定城市的另一座咖啡馆飞奔，以报道重大事件，例如爆发战争或丧葬之首。州。咖啡馆是科学教育，文学和哲学思辨，商业创新以及有时是政治发酵的中心。欧洲互连的咖啡馆网络共同构成了启蒙时代的互联网。

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