The adolescent Internet. The cover of this January 1994 edition of Popular Mechanics reads, "Understanding the Information Superhighway: The Greatest Social Revolution since the Automobile. How You'll Shop, Bank, Learn, Be Entertained, and More Via Interactive TV."

The information highway is a term used especially in the 1990s to describe the Internet. The official project was dubbed the National Information Infrastructure (NII) and went beyond the interconnectivity of just computers; the scope broadened to include all types of data transmissions between a plethora of places, people, and devices. It is often associated with the US politician and former vice president, Al Gore, who promoted funding for programmes that led to aspects of the development of the Internet, although its currency was wider than merely Gore — many policy organisations made pronouncements about the so-called information highway or the variant information superhighway. Both terms are used less frequently now that for many people the Internet has become a less abstract and more concrete thing; the highway analogy, though useful and apt, has perhaps served its purpose. Cover of Popular Mechanics, 1994. ... Cover of Popular Mechanics, 1994. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government, the person who is, in the words of Adlai Stevenson, a heartbeat from the presidency. ... Jump to: navigation, search Albert Arnold Gore Jr. ... Mitchell Freeway in Perth, Western Australia For other uses, see Highway (disambiguation). ... An analogy is a comparison between two different things, in order to highlight some form of similarity. ...

It is used in early editions of Wired Magazine as well as Popular Mechanics. Wired magazine is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ... The adolescent Internet. ...

Internet denizens sometimes use these terms in reference to the terms' overuse by traditional popular media (and consequently by non-Internet-users) while the Internet was still becoming mainstream. Compare with the term Interweb. Many geeks often use it in a mocking tone, poking fun at the press for always being hopelessly behind in their description of technical matters. Jump to: navigation, search Interweb (sometimes deliberately misspelled intarweb and pronounced with strong accent on the second syllable) is a slang term referring to the Internet, sometimes more specifically referring to the World Wide Web. ...