For the internet to work, there must be cell towers everywhere, many servers built, and tunnels built with cables connecteted to every home.
How was the government/corporations convinced to start construction? How was the public convinced to start paying extra to get access to 10 websites and hope that it would take off?
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>For the internet to work, there must be cell towers everywhere, many servers built, and tunnels built with cables connecteted to every home.
All of this is wrong
For the internet to work you just need a way to connect between networks
That was originally done by calling the phone number of the server you wanted to talk to and the communication was done over copper phone lines
Later on ISPs(internet service providers) became a thing so your computer would call the ISP’s phone number and they’d have a connection to the various servers
Cell towers provide a wireless connection from you phone to the rest of the network. We now use fancy cables to every home for faster speeds, but we had cables run to every home for telephone service for decades before
The original internet connected the internal networks of several universities and research labs so they could share data easier, that had a clear payback
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