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- Title
"If You Build It, They Will Come": Lusk, Wyoming, and the Information Highway Imaginaire, 1989-1999.
- Authors
Kozak, Nadine I.
- Abstract
Historians of the Internet have richly analyzed the overnment and academic origins of networked computing in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the early commercialization of the Internet. This work adds to the available histories by analyzing local Internet policy. This article examines Lusk, Wyoming's development of a fiber-optic network to attract informationrich industries and enter the information age. I employ the concept of Patrice Flichy' information highway imaginaire to highlight how the national discourse around information and communication technologies led Lusk to create its network and how the town's network in turn contributed to the collective vision.
- Subjects
HISTORY of the Internet; COMPUTER networks; FIBER optics; INTERNET; INFORMATION technology; HISTORY
- Publication
Information & Culture, 2015, Vol 50, Issue 2, p236
- ISSN
2164-8034
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7560/IC50206