Mark Twain wrote a story in 1898 that describes the internet

Twain's 1898 telelectroscope story made the daily doings of the whole globe visible from a prison cell.

telelectroscope — Mark Twain, 1907, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division / public domain (Wikimedia Commons)

"From The 'London Times' in 1904" is an 1898 Mark Twain short story set six years in the future, and it describes something very close to the internet. It opens as a murder mystery. Clayton, a hot-tempered army officer, is accused o…