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    Broadband Adoption at Home

    There was 50% growth in home broadband adoption in the past year, but the torrid growth pace will likely slow.

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    The Internet’s Impact on American Life

    John’s presentation provides data on broadband penetration to homes and highlights findings from the report “The Broadband Difference.”

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    Wired Seniors

    While 56% of all Americans go online, only 15% of Americans over the age of 65 have access to the Internet. Wealthy and educated seniors are most likely to go online. They are enthusiastic Internet users who love email and use the Web to gather all …

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    More Online, Doing More

    During the second half of 2000, when much attention was focused on the struggles of dot-com firms, the overall Internet population continued to grow at a healthy clip as women, minorities, and others flocked online.

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    African-Americans and the Internet

    African-American Internet users are heavy consumers of online information and online entertainment, but African-Americans are the least likely to use the Internet and those who do go online are less active users than users of other ethnicities.

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    New Internet Users

    This report looks at how new Internet users behave online at two points along the Internet’s diffusion curve, one in November 1998 and the other in March 2000.

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    Who’s Not Online

    A first look at who does not go online and why, this study examines the Digital Divide, and highlights the inequalities between various demographic groups, in particular the grey gap between young Americans and seniors.