An important technical innovation was needed to make Internet technology possible. What was that innovation? A. A communication network had to be created. Therefore, the government paid AT&T to create a second national landline system on which to carry what eventually became Internet traffic. B. A way to crunch down, to compress, large amounts of data had to be created. Once the data were compressed, then they were delivered as separate packets of information to computers that could "uncrunch" those data and make them readable. The compression of data and their packaged delivery to computers is known as "packet switching." C. High speed computers had to be invented in order to exchange large amounts of information quickly through phone lines. That's when a small company known as Intel created the computer chip, which made high speed communication possible. It's the computer chip that made the Internet possible. D. Satellite technology was necessary in order to exchange large amounts of information. AT&T landlines simply couldn't move information quickly enough. It wasn't until 1966 that the U.S. launched Telstar into orbit that the technology became available in order to make high speed communications possible