Information superhighway

The information superhighway (or German: infobahn)^[1]^[2] is a late-20th-century phrase that aspirationally referred to the increasingly mainstream availability of digital communication systems (and ultimately, the Internet and its World Wide Web).

To some extent, it is associated with United States Senator and later Vice President Al Gore.^[3]

^ "Infobahn" was invented as an analogy with the German word Autobahn for "highway"
^ The October, 1994 issue of the American Journalism Review, "Panel Vision" Archived 2013-07-22 at the Wayback Machine: "Over the last year countless articles have trumpeted the coming of the information superhighway. Infobahn entrepreneurs promise interactive television with text, video and audio delivered to living rooms via fiber optic cable or enhanced phone lines."
^ Gregory Gromov Roads and Crossroads of the Internet History: Chapter #1 - First 130 Years of Internet History

[1] "Infobahn" was invented as an analogy with the German word Autobahn for "highway"

[2] The October, 1994 issue of the American Journalism Review, "Panel Vision" Archived 2013-07-22 at the Wayback Machine: "Over the last year countless articles have trumpeted the coming of the information superhighway. Infobahn entrepreneurs promise interactive television with text, video and audio delivered to living rooms via fiber optic cable or enhanced phone lines."

[3] Gregory Gromov Roads and Crossroads of the Internet History: Chapter #1 - First 130 Years of Internet History

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