All showed more than 100 percent growth in that three-month period. The Internet, affectionately called the Net, is not North American any more. Even though I use the Internet every day of the year, people like me are considered wimps on the Net. I use it strictly for e-mail. More savvy users and those who have the time cruise around the Net like walking into and out of shops in a mall.
Some people today spend eight hours a day there.
In the year 2000 more people will be entertaining themselves on the Internet than by looking at what we call the networks today. Internet Radio is certainly a bellwether for the future. The user community of the Internet will be in the mainstream of everyday life. Its demographics will look more and more like the demographics of the world itself. As both Minitel in France and Prodigy in the United States have learned, the single biggest application of networks is e-mail .