The internet's initial development was supported by

The internet grew out of ARPANET, the pioneering packet-switched network funded by the US defence agency ARPA.

Bill Rogers is not connected with the internet's origin.

Bill Gates founded Microsoft and did not create the early internet.

Microsoft is a software company that arrived long after ARPANET began the internet.

ARPANET first linked a few university computers in 1969.

Switching to TCP/IP in 1983 marked the shift toward the modern internet.