Alternate Paths of the Internet?

Were there any possibility in different way of how internet be developed?
Maybe different types of network, data storages and dispersion, and open-sourcing?

Thanks in advance!
 
I've thought that something like the internet might have emerged from teletype networks absent the WWII-accelerated development of digital computers. As computing technology was (more gradually) refined, it could perhaps be meshed with the expanded teletype system (remember dial-up?). On a more tangential note, in the late 1940's Vannevar Bush advocated scanning all/nearly all text onto microfilm and widely distributing the viewers, which would be automated where possible for ease of use.
 

mowque

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My TL has a system of Trinary mega-computers that do most of the lifting, with binary terimals that allow users to access it.
 
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