cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/65410582
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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"Every State"? Looking into it, it seems limited to the Great Lakes states, which kind of makes sense.
It would have been super tough getting canals up over the Rocky Mountains. 😉 Not that California, Oregon, or Washington were actually states in the 1830s.
You don't need to go back two hundred years ago for an analogy FFS. You could have simply gone back to the internet boom when fibre optic cabling has a boom and subsequent bust. The interesting thing is that all that unused fibre capacity is... now behind used, unlike the canal ways.
A lot of those old canal tow paths have become excellent biking and walking paths. So they actually are being used in a roundabout way.
Well there you go! Nice.