The Internet had created a digital divide
INTRODUCTION Today computers provide us with powerful tools for information handling for collection, organization, classification, retrieval and distribution. Computers have been used since the late 1960s for the storage of large databases such as library calalogues and bibliographic references. In this paper, the author is going to discuss the saying that the advent of the internet had created a digital divide. Definition of terms According to the web definitions a digital divide is “an economic and social inequility according to categories of persons in a given population in their access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT” The University of Stanford on its website defines a digital divide as The idea of the "digital divide" refers to the growing gap between the underprivileged members of society, especially the poor, rural, elderly, and handicapped portion of the population who do not have access to computers or the intern