The document discusses the history and development of the internet over 30 paragraphs, from its origins as a US military program called ARPANET in the late 1960s through its commercialization and widespread adoption in the 1990s and 2000s. Key events included the creation of TCP/IP in the 1970s allowing different networks to communicate, the introduction of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s making the internet easy to use, and the dot-com boom of the late 1990s which saw huge growth in internet usage.