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information superhighway en · NOUN

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.

Meanings

1. (dated) The Internet and all other computer networks in the 1990s.
   • 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. 1994 May, Gary Turbak, “The Phone Phenomenon”, in The Rotarian, volume 164, number 5, page 32:
   • Internet technologies and various software platforms make it much easier to communicate and find information about others' online communication. a For many – especially the younger generation – the “sacred precincts” of private life have extended onto the information superhighway. 2011, Bryce Clayton Newell, “Rethinking Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in Online Social Networks”, in Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, volume 17, number 4, page 2:

Forms

Relateds

World Wide Web · tubes

Synonyms

t'internet · cyberspace · Intertubes · series of tubes · Net · interwebs · net · information highway · interweb · internet · digital highway · cloud · interwebz · Internet · Infobahn · information superhighway

Translations (4)

fr autoroute de l'information (The Internet and all other computer networks in the 1990s) · de Datenautobahn (The Internet and all other computer networks in the 1990s) · fi tiedon valtatie (The Internet and all other computer networks in the 1990s) · pl infostrada (The Internet and all other computer networks in the 1990s)