How did researchers build the Internet when there was no Internet to search for answers?
No Google. No YouTube. No AI assistants.
They relied on scientific research, experiments, computers and collaboration.
ARPANET came first, TCP/IP later helped different networks communicate, and the World Wide Web came afterward.
One fascinating piece of this history can still be explored through CERN:
https://info.cern.ch/
Highly repetitive & I’ve only just gotten to ARPANET in 1969. Slop?
It absolutely is slop.
For all the money that’s been put into it, AI speech is so fucking indigestible.
For anyone looking for an actual answer: Telephones. That’s how you sent data between machines back then.
Yep, sometimes point-to-point permanently switched connections.
Hell, I had to deal with some of these in the 90’s for our clients to access our cell system (analog!)
Libraries were this wild place where you could go and do research. I know it’s hard to believe.
You weren’t going to find the answers for this sort of research in public libraries.
It was experts collaborating across institutions like universities and of course the military.
