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For background and history on the concept of sending data, first check out this stackoverflow question/answer set, which includes a great diagram on what it looks like to 'call' another computer electronics.stackexchange.com/

And then take a look at how they ran telephone wires, set up microwave towers to handle longer distance, and eventually an entire world wide network telcomhistory.org/vm/scienceLo

Then try this exploration of how it shifted to telephone-over-internet (+beyond?)
medium.com/@aantonop/why-dumb-

electronics.stackexchange.comHow does a signal travel down a telephone wire?To get data to a computer the telephone wire must sent a signal but how does it do it ? Does it use analogue or a digital signal? How does it send the "1s" and "0s"?