When
Science News first went online in 1996, about one-fifth of Americans had
access to the internet, and those who did spent very little time there. Dial-up
modems were painfully slow. AOL was the largest internet service provider, and
Amazon was a start-up online bookseller.
In those early days, journalists quickly realized how great the World Wide Web could be for researching subjects, connecting with sources and publishing.
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