A Quarter of the EU Has Never Used the Web

smitty777 writes "Reuters reports that a quarter of the EU has yet to use the internet. Further, half of those in some of the southern and western states do not even have internet access at home. From the article: 'As well as highlighting geographic disparities across one of the world's most-developed regions, the figures underline the lack of opportunity people in poorer communities have to take part in advances such as the Internet that have delivered lower cost goods and service to millions of people.' The full report created by Eurostat can be found here."

Comments

Re:Internet at home

[Jesse_vd]

Somebody doesn't know what 'atheist' means.

I hope I get whoosh'd

Re:states?

[Anonymous Coward]

somewhat like herding kittens

With a large enough laser pointer, this isn't as hard to achieve as it sounds.

i know some right here in the USA

[FudRucker]

some hillbilly christian types that have no internet, no cable TV, no landline telephone, they live way out of town, they believe the US Government is the "Beast" of Revelation (chapter 13) and the end of the world is going to happen before the end of this decade

Re:A lot of EU countries are less developed

[deburg]

have other, bigger problems to deal with in the everyday life ... remote Transylvanian villages

Vampires?