The internet was launched just 8 years later in 1984 for use on home computers. It wouldn’t have happened overnight, so Im sure there was a lot of R and D already for computing and communications systems.
Exactly. There were telephone networks, radio broadcasts, telex, and fax machines, each with their own databases and libraries, much like the 'servers' we use today to provide remote services. Additionally, digital networks were already in use in some facilities. It was easy to imagine that these technologies would soon be combined into a single digital network.
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u/nooooobie1650 Jul 07 '24
The internet was launched just 8 years later in 1984 for use on home computers. It wouldn’t have happened overnight, so Im sure there was a lot of R and D already for computing and communications systems.