The Internet was founded by a group of scientist in Europe who were looking for a way to communicate, and share data quickly, and efficiently. This wasn't a "Darpa Project". Although they may want to take credit for it.
With all due respect, the foundations of the Internet were indeed a DARPA project. The world wide web as we know it today was envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN, a particle physics laboratory in Switzerland. Without DARAPA to get things started we probaly would still have some sort of Internet, but it would not be as we know it today and it would have taken a lot longer to develop.