The document discusses the origins and early development of the Internet. It describes how the Internet began as isolated networks connecting mainframes to terminals with inefficient batch processing. The US government agency ARPA (later DARPA) was established to develop a computer network to facilitate faster file transfers. This led to the creation of the IP suite and other standards, inventing the Internet. The document then discusses how in 1990, Tim Berners-Lee proposed and helped develop the World Wide Web at CERN, creating HTML and the first web browser. This allowed the Internet to evolve into the globally connected network it is today.

1. What was the Internet?
The Internet is a very useful tool today. We can share e-mail, do commerce, and share videos and
music. But long before this there was simply no Internet. There were networks, but they only
consisted of a big mainframe and terminals connecting to it. The technology at the time was also very
inefficient and was mostly unable to multi-task. It did “batch-processing” where many things were
processed one at a time. Meanwhile during 1958 in the world the Soviet Union was gaining ground on
technology. The United States were fighting the Cold War and the government feared that the Soviets
were going to be more technologically advanced than the United States of America. So they founded
ARPA (Later renamed DARPA in 1978). The ARPA decided to make a computer network that would
make the transfer of files and information faster and easier. The creation of the IP Suite and other
standards came later, and the Internet had been invented. Let's go take a stop at 1990. A physicist at
CERN (the people who want to destroy the world for science) by the name of Professor Timothy
Berners Lee proposes a system of links and pages similar but different to a Wiki which was later
invented by a programmer called Ward Cunningham. With help from a man named Robert Cailliau he
invented Hypertext Markup Language. Soon he also created the world's first web browser/editor called
WorldWideWeb. Later CERN created the world's first website, and to this date it is still online. The
site provided instructions to make a homebrew website and how it worked. In 1994 he created the w3c.
It oversaw the development of standards of the World Wide Web (Not to be confused with the IETF
which oversees the development of standards for the Internet). The net evolved into what it is now and
today we are connected with almost everyone with a computer, everywhere with a computer.