The document provides a timeline for the history of the Internet. It details some of the key events including the Soviet Union launching Sputnik I in 1957, prompting the US to form ARPA and launch their first satellite. ARPA then began work on ARPANET, the first network connection of which was in 1969 between UCLA and Stanford. The timeline notes the invention of email in 1973 and the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. It concludes with the Internet becoming publicly available in the early 1990s and its widespread use today.