This page is part of a revealing, detailed ethnographic study of Internet use during the week of Jan. 12-19, 2001, by 24 upper-middle-class families in a small-town neighborhood. These accounts of turn-of-the-century personal use of the Internet were written by the ethnographic researchers who developed the content for this site. Most if the researchers wrote a personal story about their own use of the Internet in addition to a feature story about the family whose Internet use they studied – so you will generally find two different links in each section. The research team included 25 Elon University students and the professor who led the study, Janna Anderson.
To return to the homepage of this site go here: https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/time-capsule/one-week/