Actually it is a direct descendant ...Morse code evolved in to 5 bit teletype code...teletype code evolved in to 7 bit ASCII and 8 bit EBCDIC ...
Bottom line the first "two state"/binary electronic encoding for transmission/transport of data was Morse
And the Internet is just that a data transmission/transport system...
PC's process data ...the Internet is mass hi-speed transports of data for PC's to have something to process
Invented (mainly) by Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot and his lovely granddaughter Brigitte.