eli5: How was the internet made?
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It grew, more than was made. DARPA wanted to transfer large amounts of data quickly. Turns out that the best way to do that with the technology of the time was with electricity transformed into sound and transmitted over the phone network. So we’ve got two computers that can talk to each other, through some custom hardware called a modem. “Cool!” says a third group of people. They want in on that. So they build their own modem. Now we’ve got A, B and C. D, E, and F hear about this, do the thing, and so on and so on. Data transmission gets faster, more processes are invented to coordinate everyone, automation gets involved, businesses build things, the internet is born.
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