Answer:
The invention of the internet began in the 1960s, after the launch of Sputnik.
Step-by-step explanation:
The invention of the internet was based on the events that made up the cold war. The cold war was an ideological clash between the USA and the USSR, which instead of establishing a direct armed conflict, competed with each other for influence between other countries in the world and for the degree of technological development.
Within this context, the USSR, in 1957, launched Sputnik into space, being the first artificial satellite on the planet. With this launch, the USSR was placing itself as a technological power, which reinforced that the USA created something so important and impactful. Because of the satellite, the United States began to invest in the development of information technology and in 1960 launched the ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), which created an internal, decentralized communication system that could be redirected to any of the government centers, without the need for human action. For this system to work it was necessary to create communication protocols connected to computers, which would be connected to a private local network that became known as ARPAnet, which is the first test of the emergence of the internet that we know, which despite being slower and primitive, it was very functional.