Reply #92: Do you understand high speed switching and the way data packets are

[madinmaryland]

routed across communications networks. Suffice it to say, without this high speed switching there is absolutely no way the internet could have been developed using switchboard operators. One of the by-products of this, is obviously that switchboard operators were no longer needed. It would be nothing more than a few slow speed point-to-point connections serving a few geeks.