Leadpile's Blog» Internet Explorer http://www.leadpile.com/lead-exchange-blog Leadpile - The World's Largest Lead Marketplace / Lead Exchange - Where Lead Buyers and Sellers Meet! Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:43:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Future Online Experience http://www.leadpile.com/lead-exchange-blog/2009/02/25/the-future-online-experience/ http://www.leadpile.com/lead-exchange-blog/2009/02/25/the-future-online-experience/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:52:20 +0000 Mari Woods Holt http://www.leadpile.com/lead-exchange-blog/?p=6294 Do you ever wonder how the online experience will change over the years?  Well, to look forward, perhaps we should look backward.  Do you remember how you spent your time online just over a decade ago?  You probably started by firing up your modem, and going to your AOL account.  If you ventured away from AOL, you would use Internet Explorer (maybe Netscape) to explore a few sites. Remember, you were paying by the hour, so you didn’t stay online very long, and you were tying up a phone line.  Also, it took forever for pages to load, so it wasn’t very easy to move around.

Americans with internet access were spending less than 30 minutes a month online just 13 years ago.  Today, it is estimated that people spend over 27 hours a month online.  There was no Google, and YouTube was still years away.  The Web was completely different back then, and to predict what the future will look like is difficult.  The safe guess is that we will be spending more time online, but how will the experience change?

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