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'First world country' means 'aligned with Western democracies in the Cold War' 'Second world country' means 'aligned with the USSR in the Cold War' 'Third world country' means 'unaligned in the Cold War'

Are you talking about countries with under-developed internet infrastructure? That includes swaths of the US....



No, GP means exactly the old classic definition of "second/third world" countries.




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