Now internet (rather web surfing) in a common need of all. From online social networking to booking Airplane tickets, money transfers everything is done on key boards (sometimes mobile ads too ) ...

So when this Phenomena of Internet started? 

On October 29, 1969, that message became the first ever to travel between two computers connected via the ARPANET, the computer network that would become the Internet.The truncated transmission traveled about 400 miles (643 kilometers) between the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute. The electronic dispatch was supposed to be the word "login," but only the first two letters were successfully sent before the system crashed.So the first word to be dispatched is -" lo  " across the net .

Still, that humble greeting marked the start of a phenomenon that has become such an important part of modern life that many experts argue access to it should be a right rather than a privilege. 

"I don't think it's quite on the level of food and water yet, but it's pretty close," said Jeffrey Cole, director of the Annenberg School for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California.

And btw, do you know that Finland is the First country to make Internet access (broad band ) a legal right for all it's citizens 

Now Who Owns it?

In the years following ARPANET's deployment, other packet-switching networks were created, but they were internal networks that had only limited access to one other.

It wasn't until the mid-1970s that engineers developed a way to merge networks to create the Internet.

In 1984 the domain system that includes .com, .gov, and .edu was established. A decade after that, the first commercial web browser, Netscape, became available.

Today the Internet is accessed by more than a billion users monthly.

Several companies and organizations contribute to its upkeep and operation. But no one owns the Internet, since anyone with access to a computer can create Web content.