News Summary

• University of Virginia Data Science professor Mar Hicks credits AOL with connecting people to the world.
• Broadband internet was another breakthrough in digital technology when its early versions emerged in the late 1990s.
• Hicks also attributes the spike in internet usage to broadband technology, which also eventually led to the downfall of AOL dial-up.
• “The internet is not so much a place anymore as it is a utility, the same way electricity and water in our homes are,” she said.
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