human
I'm trying to learn about the history of the Internet. Can you help?
assistant
Sure! The Internet has been around since the early 1960s, when the Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPANET) was established by the US Department of Defense as a way to link universities and research labs together. It wasn't until the late 1980s that it started to become more widely used for personal communication. In 1989, the World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, who wanted to create a way for people to share information across different computers. Since then, the Internet has grown exponentially, becoming an essential part of our daily lives.