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A Brief History of How We Connect to the Internet

We've come a long way since the days when the internet was merely a finite series of connection between corporate and military mainframe computers. Today, a pocket calculator has more computing power than the machines of that period, and yet, it is so easy to forget how far we've come in so little time. Take a step back into the past with us, as we show a brief history of how we connect to the internet, from the age of the mainframes to the modern era. 1958: The modem is born In 1958,