Introduction
This document seeks to outline and investigate the growth of internet penetration in Ireland. The origin of the Internet was the ARPANET, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in 1969.Kennedy (2012) states that twenty years ago Barry Flanagan began Ireland On-Line in his house in Galway, beginning the internet as a consumer phenomenon in Ireland. Internet thereby started in 1992 in Ireland that is twenty-three years later from when it started in the U.S. Since then the growth of internet penetration have been rapid.
Background
Numbers of homes with internet connected to a computer have increased from 5% in 1998 to 41.5% in 2005. (CSO 2005) .This shows that there has been an exponential growth over the years. In 2013 the Internet in Ireland is used by 77% of the population and is an important contributor to the economy and education Wikipedia (2014). The increase in internet usage in households is clearly shown in the Figure 1 and it also clearly shows how the number of those with computers in their home with internet and is catching up with those with computers without internet. In other words the two lines in Figure 1 will eventually merge because internet is growing rapid. Over the years internet have become a necessity rather than a luxury.
Figure 1 Source CSO (2013)
Internet growth
There are many factors which reveal that there has been massive internet growth over the years. In 2010 it was revealed that the internet was running out of addresses to assign to new devices and this is due to massive web growth, particularly mobile internet. (Kennedy, 2010) This is one of the signs that there is a high demand which cannot be met by supply and there is a need for intervention to meet the growth....
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