Human: How did the Internet come to be? Assistant: 
The Internet was invented by a group of scientists and engineers at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. They wanted to create a way for people to communicate with each other over long distances. In order to do this, they needed to invent a way to transmit data across computers that were not physically connected together. This is where the concept of packet switching came from. Packet switching allowed computers to send messages back and forth between themselves without having to connect directly to one another.