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Both projects likely took their name from the , the mythical ship used by Jason and the Argonauts. In 2017, technology was entering a "heroic age" where the old ways of routing traffic and running jobs were no longer enough to handle the sheer volume of the global digital ocean.

Researchers published influential work on "intermedia agenda-setting". Their study examined how major news organizations influence the agenda of smaller outlets and social media platforms like Twitter. argo 2017