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U.S. Home Internet Access up to 75%

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the come-read-slashdot-do-it dept.

waytoomuchcoffee writes "Over 200 million U.S. residents now have access to the internet at home, or 3/4 of the U.S. population. This is quite a jump, as only 51% of U.S. homes had access to the internet in August of 2000. Interestingly, among age/gender groups, internet access is highest among females 35-54."

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  1. ...internet access is highest among females 35-54 by Phoenix-kun · · Score: 4, Funny

    So all those email solicitations I've been getting lately from lonely housewives were real?

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  2. OSDN Personals? by StrandedOrg · · Score: 5, Funny

    "internet access is highest among females 35-54" So thats why there are 3 girls registered on the OSDN Personals instead of the one that had her pic put in the banner. That would account for the huge jump =)

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  3. Finally an explanation.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ..for all those worm (etc) infested machines! ;)

  4. Woo! by grub · · Score: 1, Funny


    Interestingly, among age/gender groups, internet access is highest among females 35-54.

    Hey! I'm 38! get ready for a flurry of "A/S/L" IMs..

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  5. Re:Not surprising by darth_MALL · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait a minute...Women have the VOTE!?

  6. Age Distribution by myownkidney · · Score: 4, Funny
    M / F 2 - 17 49,078 63,270 77.60%

    Going by all the trolls on ./, I think the distribution must be close to the 2-year old end.

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  7. ...internet access is highest among females 35- by medscaper · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, Internet access is actually highest among middle aged men who call themselves "Debra".

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    1. Re:...internet access is highest among females 35- by HungWeiLo · · Score: 5, Funny

      The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.

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    2. Re:...internet access is highest among females 35- by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      And small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri are also men (apologies to DNA).

    3. Re:...internet access is highest among females 35- by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 4, Funny

      I actually go to the trouble of putting in funky information to throw off thier aggregate numbers. I like a 99 year old female with a grade school education and a 100k+/year salary. When they ask country of residence, the top two options are usually US then Afghanistan. It's just asking for Afghanistan.

      -B

    4. Re:...internet access is highest among females 35- by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hehe.. Well statistics suck!

      In high school, I did a report for Driver's Ed class that showed the stats for various safety restraint systems (seat belts, air bags, etc) vs seat location (driver, passenger, back seat).

      According to the statistics, the safest way to travel was to drive a car while sitting in a baby carriage... nobody had ever died that way!

  8. This isn't nice but... by Parsa · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's probably single woman trying to find a single man...

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  9. Hope! by activesynapsis · · Score: 3, Funny
    Interestingly, among age/gender groups, internet access is highest among females 35-54

    There's hope for the male geeks yet! (Assuming you don't still live in your parents' basement. You don't, do you?)

  10. If 75% of homes have access by spidergoat2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why am I still getting these freakin AOL disks?

  11. Re:Not surprising by rjelks · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope there was a scientific poll done for this. If they relied on asking people their sex in AOL chatrooms, they may have to downgrade that number. /jk

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  12. no big surprise by bl8n8r · · Score: 3, Funny

    ever been to shoes.com?

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  13. Re:TWO WORDS! by corbettw · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm, posting about wanting online soap operas, on Slashdot. You're being ironic, aren't you?

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  14. Re:Not surprising by moltar77 · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's this?
    A girl on slashdot?!?

  15. As if teens didn't have enough to worry about... by MooseByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Interestingly, among age/gender groups, internet access is highest among females 35-54."

    And you thought mom was busy balancing the checkbook online....

    Now all you teenagers now get to face the fact that 'HotChick69' you've been eagerly getting busy with in the chat rooms may in fact be just down the hall.

    The horror... the horror...

  16. Your Mom Jokes? by Sylink · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your mom is so fat she takes up the largest age/gender group of internet users in the United States!

  17. You just got modded up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    +592 vagina.

  18. Re:The internet is so common now by MoonBuggy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good idea. What button on AOL connects me to that then?

  19. Re:Not surprising by the_mad_poster · · Score: 4, Funny

    lol hehe :)

    Sivaram Velauthapillai

    WTH? At first I couldn't figure out what you were laughing at and thought you were laughing at your own name...

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  20. Re:Not surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    FYI: 39% of gamers are women, but they buy most games.

    Yes, because the males pirate the rest of them.

  21. Re:Not surprising by jcsehak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, hold on! I thought it was about their suffering, and it was cute that they didn't know how to spell. That whole thing was about voting? Damn, those women can be crafty...

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  22. That's because the girls are running servers... by pr0ntab · · Score: 4, Funny

    and not just browsing for pr0n.

    it's called PARTICIPATION man. There's only so much portforwarding you can do.

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  23. Females 35-54 by z00z · · Score: 2, Funny
    Interestingly, among age/gender groups, internet access is highest among females 35-54.

    This should be expected since this is precisely the age group that is willing to go out with the average 20-year old slashdot geek.