The BBC doesn’t know what Google Fiber means for this ‘cow town’

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• Which will come first in people’s minds? The cow or the Internet?

The BBC spent some time in our humble burg in an attempt to suss out the impact of Google Fiber on Kansas City. After dozens of interviews, one thing is clear: Nobody knows what’s going to happen when we get super-fast Internet service.

There’s another clear takeaway, and it’s that Google Fiber is the latest remedy for Kansas Citians’ obsession with the phrase, “cowtown.” The stockyards in the West Bottoms have been shuttered for two decades, but the bovine moniker is proving harder to retire. It either makes for good copy or it’s a verbal manifestation of a citywide inferiority complex.