The document discusses the history and development of the Internet and World Wide Web. It covers:
- The origins of the Internet from research networks in the 1960s to the adoption of TCP/IP and opening to commercial traffic in the 1980s.
- The creation of the World Wide Web in 1989 and the release of the Mosaic browser that fueled widespread public use in the early 1990s.
- How the Internet grew exponentially through the 1990s with the commercialization of backbone networks and emergence of e-commerce.