More Than One in Four Use Internet Worldwide

A new report says that 26% of the world’s population are now online. Feel free to insert your own "the internet is for porn" joke here.

About 26 percent of the world's population were online at the end of 2009, and mobile telephony is booming with the number of mobile subscribers likely to reach the 5 billion mark this year, according to a report released Tuesday by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The number of Internet users has doubled between 2003 to 2009, according to the report.

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