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How a forgotten congressman’s crusade helped bring about the incredible growth of the internet and much else, besides

When the news hit early this year that America Online, founded only 15 years ago, would buy Time Warner, a media giant whose history reaches back into the early 1920s, The New York Times devoted almost two-thirds of its front page to the

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