iToday marks the 25th anniversary of the Internet, and a new Pew Research report on Internet usage in the U.S. has just been released to coincide with the occasion.
A bit of background: the World Wide Web was first proposed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee on March 12, 1989, in a paper he wrote about an information management system that eventually evolved into the architectural and conceptual structure for the Internet. He released computer code for the new system on Christmas Day in 1990 – what a gift!
It was just 19 years ago that only about 14% of Americans used the Internet; today that number is 87% overall. Here is the breakdown for Internet usage among American adults by important demographic groups:
In just 25 years, the Internet has caused a fundamental shift in how we communicate and do business. Just think of the way we find information: we no longer use dictionaries or phone books or really anything in print, we just Google it. And this has brought a revolution to the legal profession in the way you market your services.
