How the internet started – Without Al Gore

 40 years ago today was the genesis to what we know as the internet today. The following is an excerpt from the article HERE. "To tell the story of how it happened, you have to start with the context in which it happened. A communication revolution was taking place — but it was happening over the telephone. Telephones were for communicating, while computers were built to process information — to do things like payroll and number-crunching. The IBM 1401, a computer system about the size of a two-car garage, could process about as much information as your cell phone — your ratty old cell phone from the 1980s, that is."