The document provides a history of the internet, beginning with its origins in the 1950s with the development of computers. It describes how the US Department of Defense funded research in the 1960s to create a network (ARPANET) that would continue functioning even if parts were damaged, laying the foundation for today's internet. Key developments include the creation of TCP/IP in the 1970s and 1980s to standardize network communication and the introduction of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, which led internet usage to grow tremendously, reaching over 3 billion users globally by 2014.