Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket.

Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• CallMeAl@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  yes, originally used only cables - because that’s all there was

  That’s not correct. The Arpanet, the precursor to the Internet, already included the wireless AlohaNet by Dec 1972. The Arpanet didn’t become a true Internet, a network connecting 2 or more other networks, until 1977. So the Internet as we know it has always included wireless links.

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  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, for sure. But with the actual question being asked I wasn’t going to get all historical - I thought I’d stay with an eli5 answer for simplicity.

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Except, even from the start it wasn’t defined by wires.

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