Information highway

Term used, especially in the 1990s to describe the Internet. It is often associated with the US politician and 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.

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.