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I guarantee that most of the people siting here have a phone, and that that phone is connected to the Internet. As a generation we use the Internet all the time, wether it would be watching a Swedish dude play games on YouTube or looking at information for an assignment. But have you ever wondered how this amazing tool came to be? Or why it was made in the first place? Well listen up cause I will tell you now. Unlike the light bulb or the telephone, the Internet has no single “inventor.” Instead, it has evolved over time. The Internet got its start on October 4th 1957; the Soviet Union had launched the world’s first manmade satellite into orbit. The satellite, known as Sputnik, did not do much: It tumbled aimlessly around the earth, sending out beeps from its radio transmitter...