Interesting... You might say that communication is a driver of technology itself... You might even go so far as to say communication itself is 'the root' of technology.
Of course, communication protocols have been around for much longer than software... or even computers themselves. From smoke signals, to flags, to flashing lights, tin cans and strings, to analog waves, electrical impulse, radio waves, and then again to flashing lights over fiber optics.
The internet itself comes from ARPANET with the aim of creating resiliant self healing communication infastructure for military use, or national defence.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. The ARPANET was established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
So, perhaps this is more of an origin story of software, and the open standards required by communications systems to achieve interoperability... That in a way, gave birth to the idea of 'opening the source code', and what we know today as open source.
🤪 My Saturday night ramblings. Hope it's helpful!
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