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In the beginning, computers were rather simple machines, not yet as capable as they are today.  Back then, the 1960's specifically, computers were used for computations and other simple and repetitive tasks.  It was theorized that these computing machines could be used as a means of communication.   During this time, the United States government started researching ways to make there theories a reality.  The only thing holding them back was the question, "how?"   Much like the way telephones where connected by phone lines, computers operated in a similar way.  The machine on one end was given an input and that input was converted into a signal.  From there, that signal was sent along a wire to be received by another machine.  After the signal was received, it was processed by the machine and converted back into it's original input so the operator could read it.  And thus, the network was born.  Multiple computers connected and able to communicate with each other on a small scale.

Now that local networking has been developed, where can we go with this?  Funny you should ask!  As it turns out, other countries were working on similar technologies.  These small networks were great, but they needed to be more elaborate, more powerful.  We needed a way to connect thousands of machines together simultaneously, a constant exchange of information.  We needed, an Internet.  Soon enough, more networks were being created and existing ones were expanded.  At the same time all of those networks where being combined, forming even larger networks.  Of course as networking became more advanced, another technology was introduced.

As networking was growing in popularity, the demand was growing just as rapidly.  The current hardware wasn't enough anymore.  We needed to support more traffic, at greater distances.  Ethernet  is a family of computer networking technology for local area networks (LAN) and metropolitan area networks (MAN). It was commercially introduced in the late 1980's, and was first standardized several years later. The beauty of Ethernet was that it could support more traffic, provide faster access speeds, and allowed for larger link distances.  It was just what the doctor ordered!  (Actually medical establishments are still adjusting to networking and their progress has been painfully slow.)  Of course now that networks were so large, we needed a more advanced way to communicate across them.  Soon enough electronic mail was developed and perfected over the years.  (Commonly known as E-Mail today)  And with that, things took a rather unexpected turn.