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posted by martyb on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the staying-connected dept.

Why don't anyone go outside and play?

Since the internet became mainstream less than 20 years ago, faith in traditional institutions and consumption of traditional media has also been displaced by faith in newer, digital institutions and consumption of newer, digital media, according to the 15th annual Digital Future Report recently produced by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future.

In the years since the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future published its first Digital Future Report in 2000, the internet has evolved from a secondary medium to an essential component of daily life.

Over the course of that time:

  • Overall internet penetration has increased from 67 to 92 percent.
  • Total hours per week online has steadily increased from 9.4 to 23.6.
  • Internet usage at home has risen from 3.3 to 17.6 hours per week.

[...] Perhaps the largest change affecting our online behavior over the life of the report was the introduction of the iPhone and other smartphone technologies in 2007, which increased the internet's always on—and always with us—technology capabilities.

Since 2010 alone:

  • People who use their phone to access the internet has skyrocketed from 23 to 84 percent.
  • Use of smartphone email has nearly quadrupled from 21 to 79 percent.
  • The use of mobile apps increased from 49 to 74 percent.
  • GPS location service use has gone from 12 to 71 percent.
  • The percentage of people who stream music on their phone has increased from 13 to 67 percent.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:40PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:40PM (#627280)

    And Google didn't start until 1998. Can you even imagine an Internet without Google? They had one, but it was radically different what we have now.

  • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:11PM

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:11PM (#627379)

    One might have had to search for ftp sites on bulletin boards (the cork kind), if not bathroom stalls. There was also usenet, with topics sorted by genre. At some point, there was Alta Vista, but how good was that site, really? There's no way to tell...

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