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Frontpage news: 1 in 10 kids don't know about the internet

Frontpage news on the Morgen...
Now, to me that's really a silly shift of information.
The glass is half empty or half full...
In this case it means that 9 in 10 kids do know the internet...

In '97 Internet was introduced in the libraries in Belgium -I remember being one of the few going each week 2 hours to learn about this thing, discovering email and chatchannels. Back then there were no lines for waiting...-
In 2000 fast ADSL was introduced, and just graduated and starting independent, I was one of the first to have such a line (at a cost of 50 euro a month, and an installation of 250 euro)

Let's assume that that's the point were internet got known: 2000.
Internet became accessible to a lot of people at reasonable prices.
(I know people like LVB and many others in institutions and universities knew about it earlier, but let's look at the mass..)

We are now 2006, and 9 kids in 10 know what the internet is and worked/played with it.

Isn't that impressive??

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