In the USA our main national automobile highway is called the “Interstate”, because it connected the States into one system. Previous systems were built at the State level. Sometimes we referred to Interstates as “Super Highways”. This Interstate system was inspired by the German “Autobahn”
When we started to connect different independent computer networks, it felt very similar to what the Interstate had done just 20 years before. So the term “Internet” was created.
When the Internet started to hit the mainstream culture in the 1990’s, the comparison to the Interstate became even more useful. “Now you can email between networks such as AOL and CompuServe.”
leejoramo|5 years ago
When we started to connect different independent computer networks, it felt very similar to what the Interstate had done just 20 years before. So the term “Internet” was created.
When the Internet started to hit the mainstream culture in the 1990’s, the comparison to the Interstate became even more useful. “Now you can email between networks such as AOL and CompuServe.”
So people started to play with the words:
Information Super Highway
Infobahn
And many more
krapp|5 years ago
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway