Eli5: How will anyone know the internet existed?

Question

I mean I get the wire running and the modem and routers and stuff, but how would anyone know the ‘internet’ was ever there…or if the entire world collapsed and the internet was restarted, would it be a new instance or will it become reconnected to the original instance?

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Even if the internet itself disappeared… there’s a million books and magazines and diaries explaining in detail what the internet is and how it works. Future archaeologists would figure it out fairly easily.