An early history of the internet [History of Communications]

It is impossible to place the origins of the Internet in a single moment of time. One could argue that its roots lie in the earliest communications technologies of centuries and millennia past, or the beginnings of mathematics and logic, or even with the emergence of language itself. For each component of the massive infrastructure we call the Internet, there are technical (and social) precursors that run through our present and our histories. We may seek to explain, or assume away, whatever range of component technologies we like. It is equally possible to narrow Internet history down to specific technologies with which we are the most familiar.