The document provides a brief history of the Internet and the World Wide Web from the 1940s to the 1990s. It outlines some of the key developments including the creation of early computers in the 1940s and 1950s, the development of computer networks in the 1960s with ARPANET, the creation of TCP/IP and use of the term "Internet" in the 1970s, early commercial use of the Internet in the 1980s with services like CompuServe and Gopher, and the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee in the 1990s. It also provides short explanations distinguishing between the Internet, which is a global network of connected computer networks, and the Web, which is a system of hyper