Bloomberg -- One other factor will help move things along: a massive government bounty. In the early 1990s, when the internet was still called an “information superhighway,” the US passed the High Performance Computing Act to help build out the country’s online infrastructure. It played a key role in stoking the web’s early growth. Some of its $600 million went to the University of Illinois, where a team of developers created the first graphical web browser known as Mosaic.
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