From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 26 05:20:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA20619 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 05:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA20608 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 05:20:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA14543 for chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 14:20:25 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA04493; Sat, 26 Apr 1997 14:03:30 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970426140330.VT41085@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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) References: <199704222100.PAA00146@xmission.xmission.com> <335EE479.482AB1F2@konnections.com> <199704260125.TAA13305@obie.softweyr.ml.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704260125.TAA13305@obie.softweyr.ml.org>; from Wes Peters on Apr 25, 1997 19:25:05 -0600 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)