Relevant Knowledge, an online marketing firm, conducted a survey of 10 000 users and non-users of technology to better understand who has access to rapidly growing technology.
According to the study:
There are at least 57 million surfing Americans.
The Net has grown by 1.6 million users since January 1998.
There are 56 per cent more men surfing the Web than women.
More than 75 per cent of Internet users are between the ages of 18 and 49.
About half of all Web users have college degrees.
Another survey by Web Business Solutions looked at projections for web use in the future.
The projected growth of the number of Web users worldwide in the next 12 months will be more than 200 per cent.
Web Business Solutions estimates that there will be more than 160 million people online by the end of 1999.
Source:Netbytes, Sympatico NetLife Magazine, October 1998.
