We are all aware that in the last 15 years a communications revolution has taken place with the advent and the increasing popularity of the world wide web. In the beginning it was mostly an American phenomenon with over half of the users in the world residing in the United States but as time has gone by Americans now make up about 20% of the internet users in the world. Below is a list of the growth of the world wide web from 1994 - 2005 listing the number of American users year by year and then followed by the total number of users world wide and how much the numbers have grown.
U.S users
1994 - 13 million
1995 - 25 million
1996 - 45 million
1997 - 60 million
1998 - 85 million
1999 - 102 million
2000 - 124 million
2001 - 142 million
2002 - 159 million
2003 - 161 million
2004 - 185 million
2005 - 198 million
World users:
1994 - 22 million
1995 - 29 million
1996 - 70 million
1997 - 116 million
1998 - 172 million
1999 - 276 million
2000 - 390 million
2001 - 490 million
2002 - 619 million
2003 - 719 million
2004 - 852 million
2005 - 980 million
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