Stefan BohacekHappy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".
Douglas Edwards 
ππΊ@stefan Does anyone have page, section, and edition for this? (The image gives author, title, date, and column).
μμ£Όνμ@dedicto @stefan no but it looks like research being quoted is here: "they came, they surfed, they went back to the beach"
https://academic.oup.com/book/52617/chapter-abstract/421806907?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
and here is the entire ESRC "virtual society?" project book
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Virtual_Society.html?id=OEgVDAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
@scaramanga @dedicto Nice find!
@stefan @dedicto yeah and the points being made by the researchers seem reasonable: access costs to the internet are high so out of reach of teenagers, the dot com bust slashed ad budgets of dot coms leading to downgraded growth forecasts, lack of digital money combined with the fact teens dont have credit cards limits growth of online shopping...
The issue here is just typically bad science reporting and bombastic headlines...
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