Accurate predictions from the past

From 16 years ago.  Nice.

Courtesy of singularity hub.

Mmmm, internet

Sorry about the 2002 stop-date - LJ won't let you have more than 20 entries in a scale.

[Poll #1364177]

Interesting how wrong you can be

In the poll this morning (UTC) the average year for the mainstreaming of the internet was 1996.  This also being the year I chose.

It looks very much like I was popular, and wrong.

a_pawson went digging through the ONS to see what the takeup figures were:

%age of households with internet acccess:

1998 - 9
1999 - 20
2000 - 34
2001 - 39
2002 - 45
2003 - 49
2004 - 51
2005 - 55
2006 - 57
2007 - 61
2008 - 65

Which means that even if you take 40% as mainstreaming you're not there until the end of 2001, _after_ the DotCom Bubble had burst.

Obviously, people were using it from offices before then, but even so, it looks like the wave rolled over the general public later than I thought.

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