This document discusses the history and development of deep learning and neural networks. It provides an overview of early neural network models like perceptrons and multilayer perceptrons, as well as important algorithms like backpropagation that enabled training deep models. It also discusses challenges with training deep models in the 1980s-1990s like vanishing gradients. Key developments that helped advance deep learning in the 2000s are mentioned, like pretraining methods and improved initialization/activation functions. Examples of important deep learning models are briefly outlined, including convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks.