Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
A decade in the digital domain
2/13/2005 | 
Coverage
Keith Darnay, , The Bismarck Tribune
'" After a decade of writing about the digital world in this, North Dakota's oldest continuing newspaper column about the Internet, I have come to one seemingly contradictory conclusion: The Internet remains the same, but always in a different way.
Consider this observation from a Pew Internet and American Life Project survey of what Americans do online: "On a typical day at the end of 2004, some 70 million American adults logged onto the Internet to use e-mail, get news, access government information, check out health and medical information, participate in auctions, book travel reservations, research their genealogy, gamble, seek out romantic partners, and engage in countless other activities."
That mirrors the results from surveys in 1995 and 1996, which identified the main reasons people went online: Check and send e-mail, search for news and information, look for health and hobby resources and simply browse the Web."
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