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They did that already see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudwatt or Numergy.

And Minitel, they had networked computers in people's homes in the 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel.

And packet switching and arguably a far more capable architecture for internetworking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES

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