The way the World Wide Web has taken off since it was first developed in the 70s, you’d think that it was ingrained into everyone’s life today.  But there are plenty of people who haven’t joined the club just yet.  

The second annual National Technology Scan, which was conducted by Dallas technology research outfit Park, shows that 29 percent of US households, representing about 31 million homes, don’t have Internet access and don’t plan to get it within the next year.  44 percent of those people say they’re just not interested:  there are no compelling reasons to get online.  22 percent say it’s because they can’t afford a PC or the cost of Internet service.  17 percent said that even if they did have Net access, they wouldn’t know how to use it.  And 14 percent said they did all of their surfing, including YouTube watching and online commerce, at work.  

Meanwhile, US broadband penetration continues to grow:  52 percent of subscribers were on high speed connections last year compared to 42 percent in 2005, and about half of new broadband users converted from slow dialup while the other half were completely new to the Internet.  

And if you’re working on the next killer online entertainment application, you might be one of the lucky ones who gets to pull in some of the remaining holdouts:  analysts say that it’s things which make the Web more like pay TV that will bring more of the holdouts to the party.  

Read more at Yahoo! News.

I got into the internet because of my genealogy hobby, and then found that finding parts for my 58 year old car is SOOO easy.
Now, It's kinda like a daily window on the world.

I have a hard time imagining how it used to be without it, but if it ended tomorrow, I wouldn't be too upset.

The crooks and politicians will eventually kill it the way we now know it.

Enjoy while you can.

Anything that keeps my sister off the streets. Ooops! Wrong forum!

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Anything that keeps my sister off the streets. Ooops! Wrong forum!

lol !

A guy I worked with until a few months ago is in his early 40s, and works with computers at work all day.  He returned the work-owned laptop that was at home and tossed his Mac when it got too old, along with its Internet connection.  He sees no compelling reason to have a computer or the Internet at home.  When he's on-call, if he can't solve the problem over the phone, he just walks into the office -- it's only two blocks.