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Yes, in 1969 the internet was still 14 years away, the World Wide Web wouldn’t show up until eight years after that and wouldn’t become a “thing” for the masses for yet another five years or so.
But the Apollo 11 mission couldn’t have happened without computer code—software. As the Wall Street Journal put it a couple of weeks ago: “It took more than big rockets to put humans on the moon … It took code.”