The given bar chart provides information about the proportion of people who accessed the Internet in different places from 1998 to 2004.
Overall, the most striking aspect of this figure is that access to the Internet at home was the highest, while the percentage of people using the Internet in libraries was the lowest over the period.
As can be seen, the figure for Internet access at home decreased slightly from around 54% in 1998 to about 48% in 2000. After that, the period between 2000 and 2004 experienced a dramatic rise, increasing from nearly 50% to almost 55%. The figure for people who surfed the Internet at work from 1998 to 2000 remained more or less unchanged. However, this ratio witnessed a minimal fall over the final four years.
It can also be observed that between 1998 and 2002, the proportion of people accessing the Internet in college rose gradually from 20% to around 25%, followed by a noticeable fall to 18% by 2004. Moreover, the figure for people who used the Internet in libraries increased significantly from 10% in 1998 to just below 20% in 2000, while there was a slight decline over the next two years. However, from 2002 to 2004, it remained almost unchanged.
