When was the Inertnet created?

The internet, as we know it today, began to take shape in the late 1960s with the development of ARPANET, the first packet-switching network funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. ARPANET was officially commissioned in 1969, and it laid the groundwork for the protocols and technologies that would evolve into the modern Internet. The term "Internet" itself became commonly used in the early 1980s as networking technologies expanded.