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CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids company is finally getting credit for its role in something that has revolutionized the world.

Today, the internet is at the foundation of our ability to do life’s most basic tasks.

From paying bills and shopping to keeping up with the news, chatting with friends or attending meetings, things that were once done offline have been changed by the internet. With five billion daily users spending an average daily time of seven hours online each day, it’s infrastructure the world depends on.

The foundation that gave the world the ability to connect to virtually limitless information wasn’t born in the 1990s or even the 1980s. With a bread truck, some engineers and ra

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