We must first clarify that the software codes of the Internet protocol suite, also known as TCP/IP (Bob Kuhn & Vint Cerf, c. 1974), and the World Wide Web (WWW, Tim Berners-Lee, c. 1989), initiated the software development of what later became a seamless global physical networking infrastructure, commonly referred to as the "internet" or "web." The TCP/IP framework software, which organizes the set of communication protocols used on the internet, and the WWW software, which enables content sharing over the internet, are the foundations for what became the software for the internetworking of multiple computer networks.

Clearly, though, the software hosted on a website server or presented within a desktop browser application does not physically make the internet. The actual realization of the internet as a functioning global network is a totally separate endeavor, costing billions of dollars in capital investment and requiring many different and entirely distinct areas of physical network and infrastructure specialization.

The content in this book will provide an overview of my team's entrepreneurial journey, which started with the creation and assembly of a business case, network architecture, customer acquisitions, specialized human collateral, and a $779 million speculative venture capital investment. This investment was made to realize the potential of those software codes when implemented on a worldwide scale, as originally intended, seven years previously for WWW and twenty-two years previously for TCP/IP.

Subsequently, the realization of the internet protocol suite, when combined as originally intended with the physical global network infrastructure, triggered the explosive exponential growth of the internet and web, thereby fundamentally and profoundly transforming our modern societies and civilization. These inventions sparked the revolution of information sharing and, in doing so, contributed to changing the way humans communicate.

The creation and globalization of the internet and web are widely considered among the most transformational events in human history.