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Govt Says: Internet Is Popular
michaeld writes "The U.S. Dept of Commerce reports that more than half of the nation is now online. In
September 2001, 143 million Americans (54%
of population) were using the Internet -- an
increase of 26 million in thirteen months. 2 million more go online each month. Between August 2000 and September 2001, residential
use of high-speed, broadband service doubled--from about
4 to 11 percent of all individuals, and from 11 to 20
percent of Internet users. ZDNet has commentary as does Reuters, while the government has the Full report."
The government recently noted that 54% of the population likes to eat.
Sheesh, you reckon it's popular?
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Al Gore must be very proud... with inventing the internet and all
Cruise TT
I don't know if 80 000 000 people on AOL is really "on line". It's sad to see that as technolgy advances 'the people' remain in obscurity (ie.: in the hands of companies like AOL and MS) and it the comptres are still mystical boxes not to be tampered with. It makes me think that this headline in a dark ages newspaper would be: Church says God is popular.
--Manuel
"I hate quotations, tell me what you think"
The Internet isn't really that popular; someone at Microsoft just got confused about the subject of the poll, and sent out some email to the entire company claiming that the government was trying to measure the popularity of .NET.
You know, with all these people on the Web, somebody might be able to figure a way to sell things to them. Just think of the possibilities! We could develop products that cost nothing to deliver! 100% profit! All you'd need is some money to fund the development effort. But I'm sure people would want to get in on the ground floor. This could be BIG!
I've got a bad attitude and karma to burn. Go ahead. Mod me down.
And 50 percent of them will be overweight, middle-aged men posing as young teenage girls.
The U.S. Dept of Commerce reports that more than half of the nation is now online
;)
No wonder its so damn laggy today
Accoding the the article, your first post can now be read by 143+ million people. It's your 15 seconds of fame, take a bow. To bad you hadn't thought of something more meaningful than a quote from Kenneth Lay, just before Duncan jumped up and down and screamed in his ear, "Shread, shread like mad, shread like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't, shread!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
So is 143 million is 54% of the population then the total population is around 265 million, and given 2 million more apearing on the net every month, that is a monthly increase of approx three-quarters of a percent per month. After a bit of analasys this gives the disturbing figure that in about 195 years over 200% of americans will be on the internet.
Perhaps we should speed up the introduction if IPv6 to compensate for this.
:offtopic: A state of mind usually reserved for friday afternoons.
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You're assuming it's linear ... it is possible that the 2M/month data is a linearized case of a more accurate statistical projection.
But then again, as we all know, 85.1% of all statistics are crap.
Yes, and the other 16.8% are highly dubious.
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(if you're still looking for the point, it was back there, in the post. </sig>)
In related news, the Government also declared that the Sky is Blue, Bill Gates is Rich, and that Governments spend money on obvious surveys.
Kind thoughts do not change the world
Everyone knows that 82% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
and in other news the head of the FBI stated that "wrestling is fixed", and a former member of the baywatch cast was heard, while referring to Pamela Anderson, state that "they arn't real!".
I stole this Sig
99% of these 54% are using Microsoft products to access the Internet
...and thus haven't the faintest clue what the internet actually IS...
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