<human>:  What is the history of the internet?
<bot>: The history of the internet dates back to the late 1960s when the United States Department of Defense funded a research project known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). This research project was intended to connect computers at multiple locations across the United States with the goal of making communication faster, easier and more efficient. The first message sent via this network was in 1969 between two computers at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute and marked the beginnings of the internet as we now know it. The ARPANET later evolved into the TCP/IP protocol, which is the main protocol used today for communication over the internet. The rise of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s revolutionized the way people access the internet and since then, the internet has grown to become an integral part of daily life.