1960 - More than 88% of the US population owns a TV set.

99% of high-income people watch the debates. 67% of low-income people do the same.

Kennedy and Nixon spend roughly 16 million dollars total for their campaigns.

1965 - 47% of those interviewed believe that TV prediction of election results is inappropriate.

1995 - Only 60% of adults have heard of the world wide web

1996 - A mere 9% of adults said they use the world wide web.

1997 - 52% of adults use the world wide web.

2000

2000 - 83% of adults use the world wide web.

7% of all voters use the internet as their primary source of campaign info. 18% of blacks do.

88% of those interviewed said Gore/Bush should eliminate TV ads and hold debates instead.

Gore and Bush spend roughly 16 million dollars in Ohio alone.

* - defined terms:
1 - ARPANET - The predecessor to the internet as we know it. Originally funded by the NSF (National Science Foundation) as a networking research project.
2 - DNS - Domain Name System. DNS is used to translate between domain names and IP addresses (the "addresses" assigned to every computer on the internet)
3 - InterNIC - The authority originally established by the NSF to control registration of domain names. Later, registration was privatized and multiple companies now handle this task.
4 - ISOC - the Internet Society, which absorbed other, smaller, agencies/groups like the IAB (Internet Architecture Board - originally responsible for maintaining all a number of standards and registration practices on the internet before it left the realm of a research project)