The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is established to coordinate the operation, management, and evolution of the internet.
Critical internet resources
TCP/IP meets ARPANET
The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), developed in the 1970s, is adopted as the sole protocol standard for the US government-sponsored Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPANet). ARPANet evolves into what is known today as the internet.