The document provides a brief history of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present. It describes how early computer networks developed in the US, Britain, and France led to the creation of ARPANET in 1969. Key events included the introduction of email in 1972, the development of TCP/IP allowing network interconnection in the 1970s, and the creation of the World Wide Web in 1991 using hypertext transfer protocol. The commercialization of the Internet in the 1990s led to widespread adoption and access.