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Information superhighway

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The Internet and all other computer networks in the 1990s. dated

    "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."

  2. 2
    an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form wordnet

Etymology

From information + superhighway. The high-speed access to information is likened to fast travel on a superhighway. Early uses competed with information highway and Infobahn.

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