Re: [Air-l] american internet penetration stats?

Thank you Caroline and everyone else who helped on this. It looks like this is the most definitive answer out there:

Figure 1 in this US Census report gives numbers on computer ownership from 1984 to 2003, and internet access from 1997 to 2003. http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p23-208.pdf

Here are the numbers (much more readable in the original)

1984 1989 1993 1997 1998 2000 2001 2003 Computer 8.2 15.0 22.8 36.6 42.1 51.0 56.3 61.8 Internet access n/a n/a n/a 18.0 26.2 41.5 50.4 54.7

Source: US Census Bureau (Oct., 2005). Computers and Internet Use in the United States: 2003. http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p23-208.pdf.