This video describes brief history of the Internet.
Completed as Assignment of Data Comm. and Computer Networks Course taught in Spring 2011 semester at School of Electrical Engineering and Compute Science, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Found in etymological dictionary that the word entered use in 1985.
“1985, “the linked computer networks of the U.S. Defense Department,” 
shortened from internetwork, from inter- + network.”
That was a limited,  a natural limitation to insure military communications 
in case of war. A

Gore entered the scene in 1986:  Albert Gore introduce S 2594 Supercomputer 
Network Study Act of 1986. He spent considerable time educating his 
colleagues on various scientific issues (Congress has had very few 
scientists).

As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and 
Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as “The Gore Bill”). He did 
play an important role in developing the internet.

His exaggeration 
of claiming to have invented it was not far from the truth.  Note 
that Republicans are historically (recent times) obstructionist 
and it is obvious that Gore was a constructionist.

Here in France IBM sponsored interneting in the late 1980s. All 
academic computing centers were connected, one could on to a 
computer from across the country and e-mail was exchanged.

Around 
the same time I could FTP files from the USA, and in one case 
I went to Livermore from where we logged on to our Paris IBM, 
transferred files, compiled and executed a Livermore program 
in France.  The www came later in the early 1990s and the popular 
concept of the internet was really the www.

We always had local nets, access to regional computers via 
local terminals occurred in France in the early 1970s. We could 
not communicate between terminals however. The advent of 
work stations hit France in the early 1980s, our lab 
had a couple of Sun Servers and a dozen IBM processing 
nits hooked up in the lab with terminals.

This system 
was management by low level computer engineers who 
set up automatic daily backups of files, installed programs 
and generally made live easier for the individual scientists. 
A division of labor. We bypassed the VAX minicomputer period 
and passed to workstations in the 1980s.