1/ This is wrong on so many levels. For one thing, Tim Berners Lee was responsible for the web (HTML, HTTP), not the Internet. For another thing, nobody invented the Internet. It's not an invention. https://twitter.com/GrahameHorner/status/1260645168719343623

2/ There has been a steady invent of telecommunications technologies since pre-history. Early empires, from the Persians to the Romans to the Incas, can be best be described as based on telecommunications based upon a robust road system.

3/ The 1800s saw semaphore towers, Morse code, Baudot code, and electromechanical devices such as the telegraph. We can describe these in terms of modern Internet terminology.

4/ So much of this ancient legacy stuff is still around. The modern UTF-8 character set is just the latest form of Baudot code which predated the invention of the transistor.

Also, this: https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1232809335421620228

5/ The telephone system went digital around the 1960s and 1970s. It worked by sending streams of bits.

Computer networks from the 1960s, however, worked on a different principle: they sent sequence of packets.

6/ That the phone system was better was known by all. A stream of bits can also carry packets, but packets can't carry streams of bits. Packetization introduces to much delay, which causes two people to talk over each other, as both start talking before they realize the other has

7/ Also, everyone knew the phone system would own the apps. 1980 sci-fi like "A Space Oddyssy" or "Blade Runner" featured video calls on the AT&T network for a low low price of only $1.25 for a couple minutes.

8/ The Internet is not an invention but a standard. Back in the 1970s, every computer maker had a different network standard. Their computers could talk to others of the same kind, but not to computers from different manufacturers.

9/ Eventually computer makers added the ability to talk using common standards. For example, in the 1990s, a Windows computer could talk Xerox's IDP/SDP, Novel's IPX, AppleTalk, and something known as TCP/IP.

10/ As time progressed, all those older standards that weren't TCP/IP stopped behind supported. Even Microsoft today doesn't support their 1980s standard known as NetBEUI.

11/ Designers of the TCP/IP standard had certain goals. Many of those goals fought against the plain old telephone system, such as using packets instead of streams. One was the "end-to-end" principle, that routers should be simple and the computers on the ends complex.