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Internet Before the Definite Article

By Matthew Yglesias on Jun 6, 2009 at 11:28 am

Very interesting early nineties CBC report on the rise of “Internet”—a time before broadband and before Internet became the Internet:

I was a sufficiently early adopter that I have some vague recollections of Gopher and WAIS as well as Prodigy.

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