
Wide, wide web
Did you know that whites and Asians use the Net more than three times as much as blacks and Hispanics, regardless of income levels? A newsletter of NetAcross gives interesting facts about the Internet. For instance, one in six American children with computer access at home is permitted to make purchases online.
And by 2003, three per cent of online users will buy digitally distributed music.
By 2002, 21.9 million kids between the age of 6 and 12 years will be online. And that8217;s almost twice the number of kids who have access to the internet today.
Moreover, the internet economy is expected to surpass US 1.3 trillion by mid-2000.