Multilingualism on the Internet
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چکیده
According to a September 2004 compilation (Almanac 2004), the number of the world’s population now online is approaching an extraordinary one billion. Fifteen countries account for about 70% of the total individuals online today. The United States has the largest single proportion online of any country, or 20% of the total. This reflects not merely its relatively large population size and advanced technological infrastructure, but also the fact that the technology that makes the Internet possible was created in the 1960’s in the United States (O'Neill 1995; Hafner and Lyon 1996; Cringely 1998).
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