According to the report, "Home Broadband Adoption 2009", broadband internet use seemed to increase from 2008 to 2009. From the statistics I was able to conclude that more and more people are finding it necessary to have home broadband connections. The internet is becoming an everyday appliance of the home. It is becoming no different than the television or the kitchen stove. It is completely normal and somewhat necessary for a person to have a computer with internet in their house.
While reading about the amount of people who have switched to a broadband connection I focused on one particular statistic. The report stated that only 7% of Americans are dial-up internet users at home. It amazes me how obsolete the dial-up connection has become. I remember in 1998 when my parents bought our first home computer. For a while, dial-up was the norm. I didn't know any better. Soon some of my friends started getting faster connections and I became insanely jealous. My parents weren't "up on technology" and I don't think they were ready to pay for the internet. I don't think we got a broadband connection until 2007 or 2008; approximately 10 years after we had first experienced the internet in our home. Now that I've seen the statistics, it's interesting to think of how much of a minority we were back then.
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