May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
306 pages
8h 8m
English
"Doc, I'm from the future. I came here in a time machine that you invented." | ||
| --Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) to Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd), Back to the Future, 1985 | ||
The telephone began communication over long distances—in essence, it was the first virtual reality—the ability to have real-time live conversations with persons half a world away. The first digital message was sent about a century later over the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), a forerunner to the Internet. About a quarter century later, the Internet was commercialized. The infrastructure to connect to the Internet was in place as personal computers became standard with fax/modems being able to connect through ...
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