I'm confused about the first data center in 2008. Surely they had data centers before that, or were they outsourced before? Automatic routing of deliveries has

I'm confused about the first data center in 2008. Surely they had data centers before that, or were they outsourced before? Automatic routing of deliveries has been the standard for many decades, I'm sure the code on their mainframes is much older than just 14 years.