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I was searching for earlier internet threads and found this comment:
packet switching
We could have built packet switching telegram networks in 1850, using relay logic computers we also could have built. They would have been slow, but much faster than human telegraph operators. A radiotelegraph system could have been built around 1905 with the invention of the triode. Coherers and crystals are too slow for a sensible radio telegraph network before then.
Can anybody explain if these things proposed are possible and what it would mean in layman`s terms? Any help is appreciated.