The internet’s origins trace back to the 1960s with ARPANET, a U.S. Department of Defense project for resilient communication during the Cold War. Developed by researchers like Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, it evolved with TCP/IP protocols in the 1970s and 1980s, enabling global networking and email. By the late 1980s, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, revolutionizing information access. In 1995, Bill Gates appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman to demystify the internet, then a nov