U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for August 6: WWW Silver Anniversary

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

WWW SILVER ANNIVERSARY

Profile America — Saturday, August 6th. One of the engines of business and personal life in the 21st century is just 25 years old today — the World Wide Web. The 1991 development of global internet access and linking was announced by two innovators at the Cern Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. At 25, the Web is quite a bit younger than the U.S. median age of 37.6, but in its brief life has come to shape our daily lives. It took some time to get going, though: In 1994, there were just over 2,700 sites on the Web, and it reached 1 million in 1997. Now it exceeds 1 billion. Nearly 75 percent of the 116 million households in the U.S. have Internet access at home. You can find more facts about America's people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at www.census.gov.

Sources:
WWW story/accessed 5/25/2016: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5242252.stm 
Median age: http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/PEP/2014/PEPAGESEX
Growth of web sites/accessed 5/25/2016: http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites
Median age: http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/PEP/2014/PEPAGESEX
Internet in households and education/pages 2 & 3: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2014/acs/acs-28.pdf

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu). 

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