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information_superhighway

information superhighway

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Noun

information superhighway (uncountable)

  1. (dated, computing) The Internet and all other computer networks in the 1990s.
    • 1994 May, Gary Turbak, “The Phone Phenomenon”, in The Rotarian, volume 164, number 5, page 32:
      Developed nations also are moving at high speed toward the information superhighway being spearheaded by telephone technology. Britain, France, Germany, and other European nations are experimenting with high-tech phonery.

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  • Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year