C programming language was developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972, at bell laboratories of AT&T(American Telephone and Telegraph) in USA.
C language was inherited by the features of previously programming languages like B and BCPL, and it overcomes the problems of that languages too.
C clearly reflects the existence of B and BCPL in it.
C became popular and because of that, it became standardized in 1989 by ANSI organization.
Today, it comes in the most used programming language in the world.