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Today in WV History
15 Jun

State government launched its home page on June 15, 1996, with links to five state agencies

West Virginians accessed the Internet in the late 1980s by connecting a computer with a modem to a phone line and dialing up a service provider such as America Online, Prodigy, or CompuServe. Information was limited to whatever the provider offere...

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