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The information superhighway is a now-obsolete term that was used to describe the future of what existed up until the mid- 1990s as the Internet (for the early state of the Internet, see '' Whole Internet User's Guide And Catalog '').

, Al Gore in the early 1990s . [http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp


OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

The '' Oxford English Dictionary '' (OED) lists "Information Superhighway" under "Information" and defines it as "a route or network for the high-speed transfer of information; esp. (a) a proposed national fiber-optic network in the United States; (b) the Internet ." The OED also cites usage of this term in three periodicals:

  • the January 3 , 1983 issue of '' Newsweek '': "...information superhighways being built of fiber-optic cable will link Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D. C. in a 776-mile system on the East Coast."


  • the the "information superhighway" - a catalyst for what he hopes will become one day a national fiber-optic network."


  • the October 26 , 1993 issue of the '' New York Times '': "One of the technologies Vice President Al Gore is pushing is the information superhighway, which will link everyone at home or office to everything else—movies and television shows, shopping services, electronic mail and huge collections of data."



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