The document provides an overview of the history and development of the Internet. It discusses that the ARPANET, developed by ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), was the first network to use packet switching and laid the foundation for the Internet. The ARPANET connected 4 computers at UCLA, SRI, UCSB, and the University of Utah in 1969. It then expanded to connect 18 sites by 1971 and nearly 100 sites by 1980. The ARPANET was shut down in 1990 but commercial backbones were established, becoming the current Internet.