This document provides a brief timeline of the development of the internet from 1946 to 2006. It outlines key early works of science fiction exploring digital networks, early computer networks developed in the late 1960s and 1970s, the establishment of TCP/IP protocols in the 1980s, and the commercialization and widespread adoption of the internet from the 1990s onward which fueled innovations in web technologies, mobile connectivity, and social media.