The document provides an overview of the history and development of the Internet and World Wide Web. It discusses key events and individuals that helped create the infrastructure and commercialization of the Internet, including: - The development of ARPANET in the 1960s-1970s by the U.S. military to create a decentralized, redundant network. - Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and HTML in the 1980s-1990s at CERN, allowing for hyperlinked documents over the Internet. - Netscape and the browser wars in the 1990s helped commercialize the Web, fueling the Internet boom and rise of companies like Amazon, Yahoo, and the dot-com bubble. The