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the cutting edge
By Leo Ebersole
Times Staff Writer
Northern Virginia is choked with traffic.
No, not just automobile traffic. Internet traffic.
Approximately 60 percent of the world’s Internet data flows through Loudoun and Fairfax counties, and 80 percent of Northern Virginians have Internet access—the highest percentage of any locality in the nation.
Much has changed in the region since America’s economy merged onto the information superhighway: The Internet has changed the way Northern Virginia communicates and the way it does business. It is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine the area before the America Onlines and PSINETs of the world sprang up.
And it’s hard to remember how we managed to survive without email.
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