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BUSINESSJULY/AUGUST 2014 The End of the Internet? How regional networks may replace the World Wide Web GORDON M. GOLDSTEINJUN 25 2014, 9:06 PM ET Tweet 158 Matt Chase The World Wide?Web?celebrated its 25th birthday recently. Today the global network serves almost 3?billion people, and hundreds of thousands more join each day. If the Internet were a country, its economy would be among the five largest in the world. In 2011, according to the World Economic Forum, growth in the digital economy created 6?million new jobs. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that transborder online traffic g