The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) played a significant role in the development of the internet. It was a government agency that funded and created the internet with the primary goal of fostering advances in technology to compete with the Soviet Union. DARPA employed a team of scientists and engineers who were convinced that their inventions could make the world a better place. This team eventually split into two groups. One group was interested in the new technology for its own sake, while the other group saw the internet as a tool that could provide information and opportunities to all of humanity.
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