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It has perhaps come out as an astonishing fact that in the world’s largest economy, United States, nearly one-fifth of the heads-of-household have never used e-mail. The National Technology Scan, a forthcoming study from Parks Associates has made this revelation.

Whilst considering the Internet history, it was invented in the United States during the late 1950s-1970s by a group of researchers and scientists at the newly formed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) after the former Soviet Union launched Sputnik.

Realizing that the United States had suffered a great technological blow by allowing the USSR to hold the first successful satellite launch, ARPA set out to create a brand new technology unlike anything that had ever been done before and thus Internet was born.

The Internet was originally developed by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to share information on defense research between involved universities and defense research facilities.

Originally it was just email and FTP (File transfer Protocol) sites as well as the Usenet where scientists could question and answer each other. It was originally called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork). Finally in the 1980's, the Internet was released for commercial use.

According to the report, annual phone survey of U.S. households found that 20 million households are without Internet access and approximately 18 percent of all U.S. households.



John Barrett, Director Research, Parks Associates said, “nearly one out of three household heads has never used a computer to create a document. These data underscore the significant digital divide between the connected majority and the unconnected minority that rarely, if ever, uses a computer.”

The prime factors for such a kind of divide are age and education. One-half of those who have never used e-mail are over 65, and 56 percent had no schooling beyond high school.


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