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AP Reports Young People Use The Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the breaking-news dept.

prostoalex writes "You read a lot of stories about older generation either adopting or having troubles with Internet. But some people in this world cannot imagine their everyday life without Internet. The kids who went to school during the early days of the Web are now going to colleges and are demanding broadband, downloading music, sharing photos and posting to Web logs, Associated Press says. Most of the everyday tasks, like homework and job search, have migrated to the Web as well. According to the latest data, 188.5 million Americans and more than 1 billion people globally are online."

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  1. 188 million americans eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thats alot of americans online.

    According to www.census.gov the current population of people in the world.

    U.S. 294,915,774
    World 6,404,645,282
    07:19 EST Dec 06, 2004

  2. The news is their stats are fucked up by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Informative
    The news, according to their screwed-up stats, is the big decline after next year, from 1.7 bln in 2005 to 1.21 bln in 2006:
    934 mln people worldwide are online in 2004. 1.7 bln will be online in 2005, 1.21 bln by 2006, 1.35 bln by 2007.
    Either they forgot a zero before the 7 in next year's stats, or they believe we're headed for a global war that will kill off half-a-billion net users in 2006.

    This was not news to anyone. This was not stuff that matters. This was just a shill piece by Clickz Stats - and you gotta kind of wonder about their reliability, since they can't count or proof-read. They're probably a Diebold subsidiary, or angling to become one.

  3. Re:The kids... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    And they only pay $1000 per month to stay in the dorms (not incl. tuition), those kids are so greedy. Oh wait.