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Joy Lisi Rankin

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    How Minnesota Teachers Invented a Proto-Internet More Centered on Community Than Commerce

    Civic-minded Midwesterners realized that network access would someday be a necessity, and worked to make it available to everyone, no strings attached.
    by Joy Lisi Rankin via Zócalo Public Square on February 21, 2019

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