The last thing the computer industry needed in the 1990's was another acronym, so when Al Gore (and others) invented the Internet, they called it the "Information Superhighway."

Once past the donkey-braying dial-up procedure, newbies crawled through an array of unsorted sites (albeit free from cookies and popups).

As intelligence migrated from the server to the browser, Lycos promised web surfers the distinction of hunting rather than waiting -- so D is correct.






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