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Each of us is able to see the continual growth of the internet, the sea of visitors that are increasing everyday. As more and more people are educated to the internet, linkpop, seo (search engine placement), and memorability, will play a much bigger role in the success of each and every website.

We (today’s internet) are still at a very early growing stage of what the future holds. With children learning to use computers and the internet at ages 2 to 5, this represents the largest group of new users of the internet ever. These children are starting off with interactive stories and animated lessons that teach them letters, numbers, and rhymes.

"Young students don’t differentiate between the face-to-face world and the Internet world," said Susan Patrick, who oversees technology for the department. "They were born into the age of the Internet. They see it as part of the continuum of the way life is today."

At a preschool age, children need some grown-up help to get online

One of their favorite computer activities is writing an e-mail to a grandparent, said Alexander, author of a children’s guide to the Internet.

"It’s great for letter recognition," she said. "Everybody likes to get mail and little kids don’t have great tolerance for waiting. So the whole idea that they can write grandma and get an e-mail back a half-hour later saying, ‘I got your note’ — they love that."

Scholastic has a section of its Web site that is intended just for children, who go online to read, write and play with "Clifford the Big Red Dog." PBS Kids Online has more than a dozen educational Web sites for preschool children, including "Sesame Street" and "Barney and Friends."

Overall computer use, too, is becoming more common among the youngest learners. Department figures show that two-thirds of nursery school children and 80% of kindergartners have used computers.

At the Arnold & Porter Children’s Center in Washington, 4- and 5-year-olds have the option to spend time on a computer, working in small teams. They learn basic problem-solving and hand-eye coordination, but the social component of working with classmates on computer exercises is just as important, said Sally D’Italia, director of the center, which a law firm offers for its employees.

Virtually all U.S. schools are connected to the Internet, with about one computer for every five students, the government reports. Many older students are often far ahead of their teachers in computer literacy and they know their younger siblings are gaining on them.

As one high school student told Patrick recently: "You grew up with music in your blood. Well, we have technology in our blood."

Beyond blocking inappropriate content, schools must be certain the lessons they choose are based on research and geared to the developmental stage of the children, experts say.

More educators are using technology creatively and appropriately. When these young children become the teenagers of tomorrow, and the parents of the future, searching for a new product to buy online will be as normal as visiting a department store, surfing the net will be as common as reading the newspaper every morning.

What this all means is that our internet world is growing, the number of visitors to our websites today will seem small in comparison to the number of visitors that we will experience in just a few years if we devote our attention to the branding, and seo of our present sites.

What does this all mean?

"If you build it, They will come."