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TheBlacksburg Electronic Village (BEV) was conceived as a project ofVirginia Tech in 1991 and officially born in 1993. The goal of the project was to develop anonline community linking the entire town. Extensive outside research had been done bysociologists andcomputer scientists on this project. Some believe that this is one of the most important assets thatBlacksburg has besides Virginia Tech itself.[1]
In 1995, around 30,000 out of the 70,000 residents had access to theInternet. Two-thirds of users used the university'sweb servers. That means that approximately 42.86% of the town's population was on theWorld Wide Web. The BEV was so thoroughly integrated in the Blacksburg community, that in 1998, the town was chosen byGuinness World Records as the "Most Wired Community."[2]
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