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Britain’s Silver Surfers
The rate of internet use among 75-year-olds and above has doubled in six years
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Older people are surfing the web more in the U.K. The proportion of internet users who are 75 or older doubled between 2011 and 2017, according to the Office for National Statistics. Growing digital literacy among the elderly is a sign of the increasing penetration of the internet into all parts of life