Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 14:03:30 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Information Superhighway, etc. (was: Price of FreeBSD) Message-ID: <19970426140330.VT41085@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199704260125.TAA13305@obie.softweyr.ml.org>; from Wes Peters on Apr 25, 1997 19:25:05 -0600 References: <199704222100.PAA00146@xmission.xmission.com> <335EE479.482AB1F2@konnections.com> <199704260125.TAA13305@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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As Wes Peters wrote: > It was coined as part of then-Senator Gores proposal for the "National > Information Infrastructure," introduced by Sen. Gore in the Senate in (I > think) late 1990. I don't know the derivation of the term "infobahn", > but it followed soon after, and was originally used derisively. I think you've imported it from us. Remember, our ``interstates'' are called ,,Autobahn'' (and have something like a similar deadly effect as the use of guns in the US, due to the car and petroleum industry blocking a speed limit), this made the information highway into an infobahn for German horror journalists. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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