The document discusses the basics of how the Internet works including:
1. The Internet originated as a research project called ARPANET developed by the U.S. Department of Defense to enable communication between universities and research labs.
2. It has since grown into a worldwide network of interconnected computers and networks with no single entity in control.
3. The World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee as a way to share and link information over the Internet using browsers and web pages.