It must be a good decade since I’ve heard the phrase ‘information superhighway’ and yet tonight the BBC’s 10 O’Clock news couldn’t stop talking about it. Very weird.
Why Micro$oft and Yahoo’s courtship should have prompted this piece of linguistic nostalgia from the BBC, god alone knows.
Of course the last time ‘information superhighway’ was common parlance in the media, we were all on dial-up. The incongruence always struck me as amusing at the time.
Still, I used to love my 14.4 and then 28.8 US Robotics modems and the joys of trumpet winsock!
