Internet and the world
February 21st, 2008 | by onewebday | Published in Uncategorized
Hello, world. It’s been ten years now – a bit more – since the beginning of broad availability of the internet to the rest of us. (A timeline setting forth the history of the World Wide Web is here: http://www.w3.org/History.html
There are huge differences in connectivity around the world. About a tenth of one percent of Africans have highspeed access. Depending on how you count, about 60% or more of US citizens have highspeed access. Asia has the most internet users in the world, by far.
In total, there are 1.3 billion people online, give or take a few hundred million. But we’re still at the beginning, and there are many threats to internet access around the world. Let’s protect and defend the ability of everyone to be online, connecting to an open internet.
