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The ARPANET (which is infact the "larval" stage of the internet back in the 60s). But, if you want to get "technical" (i made a tech joke!), it was Sneakernet, which is basically, you saved the file you wished to transfer to a disk and got up and carried it by hand to the file's destination.

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