Say an ancient team of navigators, mathematicians, engineers, physicists, alchemists, astronomers, military strategists, philosophers, economists, and historians got together and found or had better recorded and passed down these discoveries into one place:

written language

animation

telephone

binary

smoke signal

Salamis Tablet

simple machines

Music Sequencer

mirrors

steam engine

magnets

projector

hypocaust

evaporative cooling

moveable type

Antikythera mechanism

... trying to create a nationwide network of mechanisms to compute and communicate information in relatively high volume and quickly? What nation came closest to this earliest in relatively ancient times? What might they have called this massive networked machine? How much faster might they have developed our modern www?

This thought experiment has been itching the back of my skull for a long time. Thank you for your time.