3. From specialized networks to the Internet
Networks have always been sources of progress and innovation, like the roads and aqueducts of the Roman Empire or the railways of the 19th century. The telephone, broadcasting and satellite networks of the 20th century have freed us from the constraints of space and time.
3.1 Telecommunications boom
Not so long ago, the telephone was the only means of communication between people. Since the early 1970s, computers too have been exchanging data with each other or with terminals. The 15 million Minitel computers in France between 1980 and 1995, and the hundreds of millions of microcomputers worldwide using millions of servers connected to the Internet, have led to an explosion in telecommunications needs. Data exchanges between computers require much higher capacities...
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