The Internet keeps growing and it is important to understand the history behind the Internet since in itself it is defining how history will be documented for future generations. It was difficult to imagine that a US military project labeled ARPANET commissioned by the Department of Defense for research into networking would ever amount to a global network for all. It actually stopped being a military and entered the next stage where scholars, scientists and enthusiasts from various universities started expanding this network. Quickly many organizations started to join and suddenly anyone who wanted to join simply continued to grow this network.

The Internet is not the World Wide Web (WWW), the WWW is actually only one of the Internet's many components. Email, newsgroups, chat, etc ... are all part of the Internet. The WWW is the work of Tim Berners-Lee who invented the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) which is the way information is transferred on the WWW and HyperText Markup Language (HTML) which is the language used to create web pages. Once everyone could create web pages using HTML then the WWW truly expanded.

The internet continues to grow in content and functionality through creative people who keep pushing the boundaries. It's such a great time to be part of the birth and growth of the Internet.

• Hobbes' Internet Timeline by Robert H'obbes' Zakon
• Short History of the Internet by Bruce Sterling
• The History of the Net by Henry Edward Hardy
• Zen and the Art of the Internet by Brendan P. Kehoe