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Internet and Electronic Dial-Up Bulletin Boards: Information Reported by Federal Organizations

The US General Accounting Office has released two reports that should be very useful to researchers, journalists, policy makers, librarians, and anyone in the general public interested in accessing US government information electronically. Internet and Electronic Dial-Up Bulletin Boards concentrates on an accounting of federal BBS and Internet expenditures, but contains an eight page section...

https://www.gao.gov/products/ggd-97-86
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project: Trend Data (Adults)

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has created this terrific site which brings together many of their data sets, charts, and graphs in one convenient location. Here visitors can look over several different data sets. Some of these data sets are available as Excel files, and they will be of tremendous benefit to journalists, educators, and public policy scholars. Visitors are encouraged to...

https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/internet-technology/
Pew Research Center: Internet and American Life

Who uses the internet, where, when, why and how? The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a non-profit project of the Pew Research Center for People and the Press that conducts and funds "original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life." Research methods include "phone...

https://www.pewresearch.org/topic/internet-technology/
World Wide Web Sites Reported by 42 Federal Organizations

The US General Accounting Office has released two reports that should be very useful to researchers, journalists, policy makers, librarians, and anyone in the general public interested in accessing US government information electronically. The second publication, World Wide Web Sites, contains a detailed, Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) hyperlinked listing of about 4,300 web sites reported by 42 federal...

https://www.gao.gov/products/ggd-97-86s