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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:
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