U.S. Web usage hits 54 percent Report: For first time, more than half of population on Net "Internet use continued to grow rapidly last year, with new government data showing that the number of Americans using the Web in 2001 passed 50 percent of the population for the first time.... Despite concerns that interest in Internet usage might cool as many dot-com businesses vanished, the government report put new users at two million per month in 2001. E-mail continues to be the nation’s favorite online activity, and 45 percent of the population now uses it regularly, up from 35 percent in 2000." [at MSNBC.com]
This isn't a surprise, is it? The Internet is becoming an integral part of people's lives, and it's crossing socio-economic boundaries to do it. But here's the most interesting part of this article. Are you sitting down? Well, I guess if you're reading this you are. Be amazed:
"The report found 174 million Americans, or 66 percent of the population, were using computers as of September, with those numbers substantially higher among children and teenagers. The data show that 48 million Americans between age five and age 17, 90 percent of that population, use computers."
And you wondered why they're called the Net Generation.
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