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Growth of Global Internet Usage (1990-2020)
The internet's global reach expanded at an extraordinary rate in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. According to the World Bank, the number of people using the internet worldwide surged from 2.6 million in 1990 to 4.7 billion by 2020, illustrating the rapid adoption of this general-purpose technology.
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