Comments on: When the Internet reached half of US households https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-the-internet-reached-half-of-us-households/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-the-internet-reached-half-of-us-households David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:55:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jon https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-the-internet-reached-half-of-us-households/#comment-57164 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:55:31 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=39139#comment-57164 We were just a few years behind in the UK, with half of households getting Internet access in 2003. But the five years leading up to that point had seen an extraordinary rate of increase, as only 9 per cent of British households had Internet access in 1998.

I didn’t realise it at the time, but that period in the late 90s / 2000s was one of exceptional technological, social and economic change. I often think of “the age of the age of the smart phone” or “the age of social media” but we had that brief period of about a decade where the Internet was both mainstream and entirely desktop-based. Little did we know what was about to hit us…

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