Census Bureau Marks 10th Anniversary of www.census.gov; Serves 1.5 Million Pages to Web Surfers Per Day

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: March 17, 2004 | Copyright information

WASHINGTON, Visitors to the U.S. Census Bureau's Internet site view more than 1.5 million pages of information a day, 13,000 percent more than 10 years ago when they accessed only about 12,000 pages a day.

In March 1994, the Census Bureau became one of the first government agencies to offer a WWW portal. Although the Census Bureau had long been a pioneer in using computer- technology, developing the first electrical tabulating machines for the 1890 census and the UNIVAC computer for the 1950 census -- activation of the Web site marked the first availability of "point-and-click" access to its ...

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