The document discusses the early history and development of the World Wide Web and internet search engines. It describes how in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a system called the World Wide Web to link and share information across the internet using hyperlinks. It then discusses some of the earliest search engines like Archie, Veronica and Jughead that were created in the early 1990s to search the contents and file directories of FTP and Gopher sites as the World Wide Web began to grow.