INTERNET STATS (as of Septermber 2000)
– 76 million in US surf Internet and use email daily– 215 million users in 2008– 333.5 million e-mail accounts active in US (in 1998 it was 77 million)– 46% of American workers use the Net for personal reasons– 48% of engaged couples used Web to gather info on and plan weddings– 55% of online gamblers are women– 650 thousand new jobs created based on Internet contact– 5,400 jobs cut between January and June 2000 due to dot-com failures– 44% of online surfers have participated in an online auction this year– 32% used the Net to keep up with and gather voting and election
information
– 18% relay on Internet “completely” or “very much” for daily news– 68% say that e-mail and instant messaging has reduced long distance
phone bill
– 71% of men have shop online– 58% of women shop online– Most likely shoppers are males with at least Bachelor’s degree and
earning $75,000
– Companies are launching Web sites at record pace– Over half of all businesses with Web sites maintain their own site– advertising online has gone from $400 million in 1997 to $4.8 billion in 2000
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