History of the Internet

The beginning of the Cold War started a massive revolution to revamp communications. At this point the only way to really communicate was by telephone or Morse Code, this was about to change drastically over the next 20-30 years with the invention of the computer. The soviets had the upper hand for a number of years but with the invention of hot potato routing and sending small packets through the infrastructure, Americans were able to develop the first email system in 1969. This was begun by stationing 4 massive computers along the west coast and into Utah. They were able not only to communicate with each other but also send information to each other.