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title: "Updated: Change in internet access by age group, 2000-2010"
description: "Internet adoption over the past 10 years: 93% of teens ages 12-17 go online, as do 95% of young adults ages 18-29. Seventy-nine percent of all adults ages 18 and older go online."
date: "2010-09-10"
authors:
  - name: "No Author"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2010/09/10/updated-change-in-internet-access-by-age-group-2000-2010/"
categories:
  - "Age & Generations"
  - "Platforms & Services"
  - "Technology Adoption"
---

# Updated: Change in internet access by age group, 2000-2010

![](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/media/Infographics/Trend-Data/August-2010/Internet-use-by-age-2010.jpg)

Teens data is from from a survey we conducted between June 26 and September 24, 2009 of 800 adolescents between ages 12 and 17. Adult numbers are drawn from a survey we conducted between April 29 and May 30, 2010, among a sample of 2,252 adults ages 18 and older, including 744 reached on a cell phone.