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RealAudio  |  2017-09-21  |  184.5 KB  |  1 channel  |  8,000 sample rate  |  1 minute, 39 seconds

Transcription: Welcome to the Internet 1996 World Exposition. World Expositions have a long, proud tradition. From the Crystal Palace of 1851 to the 1939 New York World's Fair, World's Fairs introduce people to the new technologies that came to define the industrial age. From electricity and the telephone to the ice cream cone, the hamburger and the postcard, World's Fairs left a legacy. As we leave the industrial age and enter a new age of information, it is time for a new kind of World's Fair. This one will continue throughout 1996. This is the first World's Fair where anybody can open a pavilion, where an ...

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