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Originally Posted by nyrath
As a matter of interest, most experts say that the first description of something resembling the Internet in Science Fiction was in a 1946 story "A Logic Name Joe" by Murray Leinster.
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I'm not sure who "most experts" are, but E. M. Forster beat that by 37 years:
The Machine Stops
True, the technical details of the Machine are never truly specified, but it's got streaming music, chat, people who IM you at annoying times, and the Internet echo chamber effect in all its glory. Whether or not Forster foresaw exactly how his Machine would work, he was disturbingly prescient about Internet culture.