February 27, 2014
Next month, ye olde World Wide Web turns 25, which is old enough to rent a car in most states. To mark this milestone, Pew has put together a new report on the state of the web today. Some highlights:
• 87% of adults now use the Internet in America.
• 68% of adults now use a mobile device — smartphone, tablet — to go online.
• 28% of landline telephone users believe their phone would be very hard to give up, which is notable since just eight years ago that number was 48%.
• Overall, 90% of Internet users believe the Internet is a good thing.
Those are just a handful of interesting stats for you to chew over in Pew’s report. Dig into the full thing here.