Posted on 03/12/2014 2:44:35 PM PDT by ThethoughtsofGreg
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web since its public release by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, prompting the Pew Research Center to release its latest re03-technologies-that-would-be-hard-to-give-upport, entitled The Web at 25 in the U.S. The report looks at a combination of objective metrics for Internet penetration, as well as survey results of how users perceive the Internet. On the whole, the internet has fundamentally changed the way we interact with the worldfrom creating content, to interacting with our government, to taking care of our health. Regardless of how people use it, the Internet is clearly becoming more essential. In 2006, only 38 percent of adults said that the Internet would be difficult to give up. Today, that number has surged to 53 percent. But, 62 percent of Internet veteransindividuals who began using the Internet before 2000reported that the Internet would be very difficult to give up. Only 46 percent of users who started in the 21st century agreed.
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1990 + 25 = 2015, not 2014
Just saying
I signed up for eBay in 1998, does that make me a old timer. My first computer was a Mac clone from Sears and Roebuck and I remember the agony of Dial-up with Comp u Serve it think and then came Netscape from Mark Andreasen.
Hello. I am a member of Nigerian Royalty with 10 Trillion dollars in the bank. But can not retrieve the funds unless I pay a $100,000 release fee. Kind sir, If you provide the release fee you will share in half of the account value of 10
Trillion US.
I was on it back when the informational super highway was just a gravel road. Being an impatient and curious fellow I can’t go back to having to wait to get information. If only I could tap into the NSA:)
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