With our taxpayer money, The U.S. government, under the aegis of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), created the foundation of the Internet as we know it today.

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The United States government, through its public funding of DARPA, was responsible for the creation of the Internet and our nation reaped untold wealth as the progenitor of the information revolution.

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When DARPA researchers connected computers between UCLA and Stanford in 1969, the Internet was born.

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And we understood that if we're investing in things like a Hoover Dam or DARPA -- the research and development arm of our military that ended up producing things like the Internet or GPS -- that that, in fact, would be good for everybody.

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