How Did The Internet Start?

The Internet, as we know it today, has evolved over many years. The Internet had its beginnings during the Second World War when technologies such as radar, electronics and early computing machines were invented. Millions of dollars were put into research and development by the United States. The US Government set about designing a non-centralised system that would keep working even if one or more of the computers on this system were damaged or destroyed.

In 1969, the first computer network was created in the US. It was designed for organisations and universities which were involved with defence research. It grew through the 1970‘s allowing more researchers to join the network and share information with other users. More and more computers were added to the network not only in the US but internationally, creating a giant network connecting thousands of people.
The first TCP/IP wide area network was operational by 1 January 1983, when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. (This date is held by some to be technically that of the birth of the Internet.)
The ability of TCP/IP to work over these pre-existing communication networks, especially the international X.25 IPSS network, allowed for a great ease of growth. Use of the term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated around this time.
The network gained a public face in the 1990s. On August 6th, 1991 CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few Web pages at CERN.

The Internet went public in 1989, but it was not until the late 90‘s/2000‘s that it became widely popular and used.

Will Robots Eventually Take Over Our Day To Day Activities.

Unlike humans, an intelligent machine does whatever you want it to do, for as long as you want it to. You want to gossip? It’ll gossip. You want to complain for hours on end about how your children never call? No problem. And as the technology of robotics advances—the Pentagon has developed a fully functional robotic arm that can be controlled by a human mind—they’ll be able to perform ordinary human physical tasks too. They’ll clean the floor, do your nails, diagnose your ailments, and cook your food. Increasingly, then, robots will take over more and more jobs.

Another way of looking at how quick computer power is increasing. - Source: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/robots-artificial-intelligence-jobs-automation (Very interesting article about the evolution of computing and robotics.)

Suppose it's 1940 and Lake Michigan has (somehow) been emptied. Your job is to fill it up using the following rule: To start off, you can add one fluid ounce of water to the lake bed.