Ah the AT&T Picture phone introduced in 1964 at Disneyland and the New York (and others) worlds fair. Here's a REAL ad for a Picture phone circa 1968. For more information about the Picture phone and its origins. https://mashable.com/2014/04/20/videophone-turns-50/#igtrEnQ5sOqy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_videotelephony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotelephony
The Germans even had it figured, 3 years before the outbreak of war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_videotelephony#World's_first_public_videophone_service:_Germany_1936–1940 It's hard to imagine images getting pushed through 2 thin copper cables, without sophisticated modern electronics. Especially, when compromised signals are to create an image which is as fast as the televised person him/herself
The internet idea goes back to the 1930's with Paul Otlet. "Otlet scholar W. Boyd Rayward has written that Otlet's thinking is a product of the 19th century and the philosophy of positivism, which holds that, through careful study and the scientific method, an objective view of the world can be gained. According to W. Boyd Rayward, his ideas placed him culturally and intellectually in the Belle Époque period of pre–World War I Europe, a period of great "cultural certitude". Otlet's writings have sometimes been called prescient of the current World Wide Web.[13] His vision of a great network of knowledge was centered on documents and included the notions of hyperlinks, search engines, remote access, and social networks—although these notions were described by different names.[14] In 1934, Otlet laid out this vision of the computer and internet in what he called “Radiated Library” vision" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet
So, computers have been around for 2000 years and modern computers began being used in America in 1957 when I graduated high school. Danged, all of this time I could have been on the internet wasting time, watching porn, and learning things.
Not that hard. Before radial coax cable, TV signals received off an antenna went to the set via a split coax, for which the distance between the conductors was based on wavelength, and they worked in concert to act like a string of quarter-wave dipole antennas all the way along the cabling. To go 160 Km, I'm sure they had to use booster stations because of signal loss. That's why radial coax is far superior--signal loss is so very minimal and induced noise is kept to a minimum as the outer conductor acts as a shield so the induced noise goes straight to ground.
That 'it' can be done, in that position, that position also, and this position, unless you have a bad back.
I don't know. I didn't get my first used computer for many years. I do remember using flat brown TV coax and a small aluminum bow-tie antenna to watch three local TV stations.
