The document provides a history of the Internet from its origins in 1969 as a US military and research network called ARPANET, to its growth and commercialization in the 1990s. Some key events included the development of TCP/IP protocols and email in the 1970s, the connection of universities and commercialization of services in the 1980s, the creation of the World Wide Web in 1989, and the release of Mosaic and Netscape browsers in the early 1990s which opened the Internet to the general public. By the late 1990s hundreds of millions of people were using the Internet globally on a regular basis. The document also discusses that no single entity owns the Internet due to its decentralized design, but various organizations coordinate its technical operations and