Ten Years Ago... Internet Use Doubled in 18 Months

INTERNET USE HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED IN LAST 18 MONTHS, SURVEY FINDS
[SOURCE: Washington Post 3/13/1997, AUTHOR: Rajiv Chandrasekaran]
Ten years ago, Nielsen Media Research and CommerceNet found that almost 25% of people over the age of 16 in the US and Canada were using the Internet -- more than twice the number using the Net just 18 months before that. 17% were using the World Wide Web -- wow, do we even make a distinction between the Internet and the World Wide Web anymore? -- compared with 8 percent 18 months earlier. Internet usage had increased from 10 percent to 23 percent, the survey found. 50.6 million people in both countries were using the Internet, while about 37.4 million were using the Web. As of December 2006, Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 70% of US adults are now Internet users.
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