When Finland became the first country in the world to declare broadband access to be a human right in 2009, Internet growth entered a new phase and marked another milestone in our astonishing obsession with the online world.
Only eleven years previously, in 1998, there were only three countries in the world which had 30% Internet take-up - New Zealand and Scandinavian neighbours Iceland and Sweden. Here is a brief overview of the rapid rise of global Internet coverage from 1998 - 2008, according to a recent study by the BBC.
1998: Scandinavia Leads the Way
While Scandinavia set the pace, North America was not far behind, with an estimated 84,587,000 users online in America and 7.5 million in Canada. By way of contrast, only 200 of the 68 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo were connected.
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