Could We Have Had The Internet In The 1960s?

A 1964 Experiment Almost Created the Internet But the Company behind It Pulled the Plug

Sean Kane | May 3, 2016

During the 1960s, AT&T's Bell Labs developed a video-calling platform known as the Picturephone.
In doing so, the company almost invented the internet. But after a few seemingly insurmountable struggles, it decided to end what was then the best hope of a world wide web.
The story begins with video calling, which is a lot older than you may think. The first patent was filed in Germany in 1932 by Dr. Goerg Schubert.

"At the 1964 World's Fair, a phone call to the future." Source: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-brody-world-fair-mother-deaf-20140518-story.html

Source: http://airportjournals.com/the-future-is-here-the-picturephone/

<more at http://www.techinsider.io/videophone-internet-telephone-invention-1960s-2016-5; related articles and links: http://mashable.com/2014/04/20/videophone-turns-50/ (The Videophone Turns 50: The Historic Failure That Everybody Wanted. April 20, 2014) and http://www.beatriceco.com/bti/porticus/bell/telephones-picturephone.html (Western Electric Picturephone® (Video Phone). Ahead of it's time - Another Bell Labs innovation! 2015)>