It looks like America's love affair with the Internet is still growing. The University of Southern California is releasing the results of a new survey today, rearding the use of the Internet.
In 2000, 67% of Americans were online and they spent an average of 9.4 hours surfing the web each week. In this recent survey, USC found there are now 78% of Americans online, and they are on the Internet an average of 14 hours a week. This means there are about 234,000,000 Internet users in the United States [out of a population of slightly more than 300,000,000 people]. Of the 22% not currently going online, 60% said they had no plans to go online within the next year.
Of course, young people are the group with the highest percentage of users. An astounding 99% of those under the age of 18 are online. In contrast, only 38% of those over the age of 66 are Internet users.
Americans are fairly evenly divided in how they are connecting to the Internet:
* 37% connect thru dial-up accounts
* 26% connect through high-speed cable modems
* 24% connect through DSL modems
* 11% connect through mobile devices at least part of the time
The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. You know, if this keeps up, this Internet thing might actually become popular!
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