The federal government's role in developing the internet can best be described as:

The chief inventor of the technology used everyday by billions of people around the world.

The original group to conceive of a set of interconnected systems used by billions of people around the world.

The group that scaled the use of the internet from a niche service to a global utility used by billion of people around the world.

An early supporter of a radical concept that helped bridge an academic concept into a service leveraged by corporations and users around the world.

None of the above.