DARPA funded most of the grant money used by research entities to create the various parts of the IP stack. That's not "basic research". Simply put, were it not

DARPA funded most of the grant money used by research entities to create the various parts of the IP stack. That's not "basic research". Simply put, were it not for DARPA, we wouldn't have the Internet of today. We'd probably have something like it, but something a lot more closed off and walled garden-esque.