why didn't ancient people put these all over europe to basically have the internet in middle ages?

Native Americans used smoke signals, therefore they invented the internet.

>>211746903 (OP)
They did

>>211746903 (OP)
Extremely dumb and wasteful to have all of these outposts, which must be insanely hard to supply, just in case Gondor asks Rohan for aid every few centuries. Why didn't they just use pigeons?

fire wasn't invented until the 1930s

>>211746995
>which must be insanely hard to supply
Doesn't lambas bread last indefinitely? Couldn't you just send a guy up with a backpack full of lambas bread and some flint and have him watch the tower behind him for a year?

>>211746981
show 5 examples where it was used in history

>>211746903 (OP)
The chinese used this for signaling along the great wall

>>211746995
there were only seven beacons in the book with 20-30 miles between them, don't remember if the movie increased this number
>just in case Gondor asks Rohan for aid every few centuries
the beacons were made to work the opposite way, as an early warning system for minas tirith in the event of an attack from an enemy, using them to ask rohan for aid was gandalf's idea
>Why didn't they just use pigeons?
the beacons were much much faster than carrier pigeons would have been and much much more reliable

>>211746903 (OP)
They were extensively used in Scandinavia, particularly in Norway, where their maintenance was mandated by law for several centuries. They were in use up until the 19th century, though some were set up, but not lit, in 1914.
Some are maintained to this day, though only for the sake of tradition.

>>211747244
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_signal

>>211746903 (OP)
>>211747244
Historically illiterate retards

>>211747244
Prove auschwitz was real

everything existed back in olden days till niggers and browns started infesting everywhere and destroyed things just coz'

>>211749093
This is a map showing the known beacons in Norway during the viking age and the medieval era. The red ones are in places that are actually named after the beacon (vete), which shows how important and ubiquitous they were.

>>211752141
How did that work? Like if an enemy ship is spotted in Skagerrak, do they start lighting and keep going until eventually the whole country is lit?

you mean like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappe_telegraph

>>211752299
I'm fairly certain most of the systems were local. You can see most of the ones that seem to be connected are along the southern coast and in the western fjords, and were intended to warn against raids by sea.
Also, the vast majority of people in Norway live and lived by the coast, with some exceptions in eastern Norway, where the terrain is flatter and you can actually farm the land.

>>211746903 (OP)
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>>211746903 (OP)
You can look up Le système Chappe, although it's from the 1700/1800s
Takes a shit load of coordination, territory control, organization, and manpower. Everything the middle ages didn't have.

>>211747244
Prove anything ever has happened before you were born

>>211746903 (OP)
The internet iss all mental