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information superhighway

noun

Etymology

From information + superhighway. The high-speed access to information is likened to fast travel on a superhighway. Early uses competed with information highway and Infobahn.

  1. inherited from hēahweġ — “main road, highway”
  2. inherited from heiȝwai
  3. prefixed as superhighway — “super + highway”
  4. compounded as information superhighway — “information + superhighway”

Definitions

  1. The Internet and all other computer networks in the 1990s.

    • Developed nations also are moving at high speed toward the information superhighway being spearheaded by telephone technology. Britain, France, Germany, and other European nations are experimenting with high-tech phonery.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for information superhighway. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA