The document provides a history of the internet from its origins in the late 1950s to its growth and widespread use today. It began as a concept for networking computers proposed by J.C.R. Licklider in 1958. In the following decades, researchers developed the underlying technologies and network protocols that allowed computers to connect. The internet became publicly accessible in the late 1980s and its growth accelerated dramatically with the introduction of the World Wide Web in 1991. Today, billions of people worldwide use the internet for communication, information access, commerce, and entertainment through computers and mobile devices.

1. THE INTERNET By Abbi & Cassie