The document provides a history of the development of the Internet from the 1960s to present day. It discusses early concepts for a global computer network in the 1960s by JCR Licklider at DARPA. In the 1970s, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn coined the term "Internet" and Robert Metcalfe invented Ethernet to help transport data. By 1983, ARPANET required the use of TCP/IP, establishing the core protocols of the Internet. The World Wide Web was released by Tim Berners Lee in 1991, allowing for easy information sharing. Major Internet companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter were founded in the late 1990s and 2000s, revolutionizing how people use and share information online