Nearly half a century ago, history was made with the ‘successful’ transmission of data between two computers in California. The letters ‘lo’ were sent – it should have been the world ‘login’, but that’s a moot point – establishing the basis of what we today refer to as the internet.
Originally used by the military and universities to communicate, it wasn’t long before everyone could see the benefits of this network. By the late 1980s, governments, businesses and the general public were increasingly connecting their computers all across the world.
