The document provides a history of the telephone and the internet. It discusses how Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray independently invented the telephone in the 1870s. It describes how sound waves are transmitted through a telephone's transmitter and receiver. It also discusses the development of the internet from ARPANET in the 1970s to the creation of HTML and the World Wide Web. Advantages of wired internet include reliability and transfer speeds, while disadvantages include the need to run wires and limitations on mobility.