Digital divide closes with more Internet?Recent reports claim that more affordable laptops, more computers in public schools and libraries and new cell phones and hand-held hand-held also hand·held adj. Compact enough to be used or operated while being held in the hand or hands: a hand-held video camera. Adj. 1. devices that connect to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the have contributed to closing the digital divide, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of times. More young people are accessing and using the Internet but blacks and other minority groups of all ages are merging on the Internet. Some say, however, that the digital divide is still vast in more subtle ways, such as with homework. as minorities might not have access after school hours. |
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