History of the internet By zanjabil Aug 3, 1960 the internet was first conceived. under the leadership of ARPA Aug 3, 1971 the internetworking group was established to govern the growing network Jul 7, 1979 the first USENET newsgroup was started Mar 13, 1983 TCP/IP becomes the network standard Nov 5, 1985 the USA nat. science foundation program based on 6 supersomputers Mar 10, 1990 ARPANET finished and left the internet Dec 19, 1993 first graphic based web browser developed Oct 22, 2003 Itunes and myspace launched Sep 2, 2004 social networking such as facebook Jan 25, 2011 number of internet users reachers 2 billion
