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Early Internet Government Files Revealed | Jersey News
The National Archives just unleashed over 50,000 pages of raw, unfiltered government documents from the internet’s wild, dial-up era—capturing the frantic, hopeful, and often clueless scramble to govern the digital frontier before social media or smartphones existed. From Y2K panic to early debates on online regulation and cybersecurity, these memos reveal how policymakers wrestled with a world exploding with potential—and peril. Now, they’re inviting the public to help transcribe them, turning history into a crowdsourced digital time capsule. This isn’t just nostalgia—it’s a blueprint for…
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