The document outlines the timeline of major events in the development of the Internet from 1969 to 2012. It describes the birth of the ARPANET in 1969, the development of communication protocols in the 1970s, the introduction of TCP/IP and the first email in 1972. Commercialization began in the late 1980s and 1990s with the creation of NSFNET and the World Wide Web. Key developments included the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and the MyDoom internet worm of 2004.