African Americans Are Moving Into the Digital Age With Speed

(BLACK PR WIRE) The Internet was first popularized in the eighties and has grown at an unparallel pace over the past two decades. It has infiltrated the lives of its users to the point where wireless devices are now necessary so that access to the Internet isn’t interrupted. Imagine when being “connected” meant having a wire running from the wall to the phone. As the World Wide Web and Internet connection continues to advance and grow, the African American community, once far behind in technology, is now increasingly progressing in what has now become known as the Digital Age.

During the onset of rapid computer growth in the late eighties and early nineties, many studies pointed to the fact that African Americans were less likely than other races to have access to a computer and the Internet. In 1998, a study at Vanderbilt University found that whites were significantly more likely than African Americans to have a computer and use the Internet at home. In addition, the study also found the overall difference in computer ownership between whites and African Americans to be income. In other words, the more money a family makes the more likely they own a computer. However, according to the same study, as of January 1997, more than 5 million African Americans in the United States used the Internet.

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