Internet in the United States of America

According to Nielsen Online, there were 227,636,000 Internet users in the USA in June of 2009, which makes up 74.1% of the population. Now, what role did the USA had in development ofthe Internet? Actually the role of the U.S. in the IT technology goes back to 1945 when it produced itd first computer called ENIAC in 1945, two years after the British invented Colossus, the first programmable digital electronic computer, used for code breaking in World War II. Although computers are more than sixty years old, they and their related technologies are the latest technology to enter the household. But now computers are everywhere, from schools and hospitals to banks and shops and even mobile phone of today are essentially acvanced computers equipped with Internet. With an Internet penetration rate of 74.1%, the USA is the leading country and North America is the leading region in the world.(1) Internet is used for a variety of purposes, and different people use it differently, for example gender, age, socio-economic status, and education of Internet users affects their Internet use.(2),(3). All in all, information is the new source of power in the world and as the sole superpower, the USA is at the center of the information techology which can best be manifested through Inetrnet.