The document provides a brief history of the internet from its origins in the 1960s to the early 1990s. It discusses how the ARPANET was developed in the 1960s to create a communication network resilient to destruction. The first use of the internet was in 1973 and it was designed to allow computers to share information. The first friendly interface, called Gopher, was developed at the University of Minnesota in 1991 to provide a simple menu system for accessing files across campus networks. The internet grew to allow many uses like email, games, movies and more by taking advantage of its ability to share information across computers.