Here is an overview from the people who created it: https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/ https://www.internetsocie

Here is an overview from the people who created it: https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/ https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/br... An internet timeline, 1957 -- 2017: https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ The recent article linked here reviews some of the important early papers about the Internet and alternatives: http://named-data.net/publications/main/ http://named-data.net/publications/main/ A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade, Report no. 4799, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a115440.pdf http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a115440.pdf The Wikipedia article on Arpanet has many many links to its technical and political history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET The Arpanet was the immediate predecessor of the Internet, and was built and operated by many of the same people. Arpanet did not use the TCP protocol, but experience with Arpanet very much informed the design of TCP.