How did the internet start?

[Mullahgrrl]

I heard it was made to be indestructable in the context of nucular warfare.

 

[Jonatron]

When a mummy Al Gore, and a daddy Al Gore love each other very much...

 

[slabomeat]

CERN

 

[Lord S. Binkleheimer]

When thy old saints Bill Gates and Al Gore brought upon themselves from thy journey of 30 days and 30 Burger King-fueled nights to assemble the omniscient and ancient admins of ye olden Forum board and transcribe the legendary HTML coding unto the all-knowing Microsoft Word document.

And thus, the internet was born.

Amen.

Actaully, it was more like this:

After clocking countless hours in the Realm of Fallout, the military generals decided that the vault system could be more efficent with a network comm system...thing.
Just in case of those nuclear bombs, ye' know?
Thus, it was born.