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The development of telecommunications up to the middle of the present century was marked by the improvement of interpersonal telecommunication. In former days this applied to the electric transmission of written messages over a distance. In the earliest days of telecommunication messages were converted by coding into a form suitable for teletransmission. The principle of such conversion into an appropriate form (formalization principle) was much later extended so that it applied not only to information transmission but also to its processing and storage. In the 1950s this coded information came to be called “data”.
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© 1992 Josef Pužman and Boris Kubín
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Pužman, J., Kubín, B. (1992). Introduction. In: Public Data Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1737-7_1
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