History of the Internet & World Wide Web History : 1) First 130 Years of Internet History

For the record, the birth of the internet came about as a collaborative effort between Universities, private enterprise, and government established standards to 'bring it all together'.

969: The first LOGs: UCLA -- Stanford

According toVinton Cerf: 
...the UCLA people proposed to DARPA to organize and run a Network Measurement Center for the ARPANET project...

Around Labor Day in 1969, BBN delivered an Interface Message Processor (IMP) to UCLA that was based on a Honeywell DDP 516, and when they turned it on, it just started running. It was hooked by 50 Kbps circuits to two other sites (SRI and UCSB) in the four-node network: UCLA, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.