How did the internet start?

Did you know the internet used to be as big and heavy as an elephant? Grab your keyboards and join Mira and Finn on a time-traveling adventure to the 1960s to discover how the internet was invented! Long before Wi-Fi, smartphones, and tablets, computers were so massive they took up entire rooms and weighed over ten thousand pounds. But there was one huge problem: these giant machines couldn’t even talk to each other! Discover how scientists built a clever network called ARPANET and tried to send the very first digital text message. Spoiler alert: the whole system completely crashed after just two letters! You will also learn about the brilliant British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web and gave it away to the entire world for absolutely free. Plus, find out why the very first webcam was invented just to watch a coffee pot, and uncover the secret underwater cables that carry the internet right past swimming sharks and giant squids! Perfect for curious kids, this exciting episode reveals the incredible true story behind the greatest digital machine humans ever built!