The PITAC committee was created as part of a bill known as HPCA that provided funding to develop this system. A predecessor to this system incorporated concepts from CYCLADES (SICK-luh-deez) and was led in part by Larry Roberts. Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf were (10[1])instrumental in the development of this broader system, which was partly regulated by a 1998 act called COPA. (10[1])This system's (10[1])rise, which led to the rapid growth of stock valuations, (10[1])stemmed from the (10[1])implementation of Erwise and Mosaic. Ted Stevens criticized an amendment prohibiting providers of (10[1])this system from charging companies to prioritize their data by calling this (10[1])system a (10[1])"series of (10[1])tubes." The Department of Defense's ARPANET (ar-PAH-net) project preceded this technology, which Al Gore claimed to take "the initiative in creating." For 10 points, name this system at the center of the 1990s dot-com bubble. ■END■