‘NEW BANKING’, TOMORROW’S WORLD, 1969
Like internet banking today, but a billion times more tedious.
Steamship Routes of the World, 1900 (click here for zoomable version)
THE WORLD’S INFORMATION HIGHWAYS 1901, 2011
The telegraph vs the Internet
Via http://www.dephx.com/2010/11/map-of-undersea-cables-from-1901.html
and
http://www.cablemap.info/ (interactive map)
respectively
First Chinese Air Mail Stamps, 1921
