> knew the benefits of personal and the Internet, they could be reproduced in the 1950s

It could have been in the 30s. The triodes were dorogi, but the one-bit (consecutive) nucleus was real. But the operation on the magnetic rings would have had the whole family, shorting the winter evenings at the seamless radio. Spinning mirrors, console keys, yellowed sheets of machine codes... and chats instead of VMV %)