Where did the internet start?

The internet has a long history going back to the early 1960s when it was only used by the government and colleges to share data. Leonard Kleinrock from MIT and later CLA developed the idea of packet switching which was used to formulate all other protocol over the internet. When the internet was first developed it was known as ARPANET. At first ARPANET was only connected to four major universities and had several kinks that needed to be worked out before the development of modern protocols such as TCP/IP by Bob Kahn in the 1970s. The internet used to run on 56k modems which are extremely slow when compared to modern day DSL lines and even fiber optic lines that can carry information 50GB at a second.  Below is an image of the early day network of the old ARPANET when it was only used by specific organizations courtesy of http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Arpanet_sep_1974.jpg
Additional information can be found here http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html