The graph below shows the percentage of households with different kinds of technology in the U.S. from 1995 to 1999. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph illustrates the

proportion

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of American families equipped with various domestic appliances over the period between 1995 and 1999. It is conspicuous that the usage of all facilities showed an

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rising tendency from 1995 to 1999, with the only exception that the percentage of houses using DVD players decreased from 1995 to 1996. Over the shown period, the washing machines enjoyed the most prevalence and the

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of mobile usage saw the biggest increment. In 1995, less than 20 per

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of households had access to cell phones,

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washing machines were already popular around the United States (around 60 per

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).

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, the figure for mobile phones rocketed dramatically in the remaining years, reaching more than 70 per

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and almost catching up with the

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of washing machines( 80 per

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of American families were equipped with one). It's worth mentioning that the resemblances could be seen in the trends of the Internet and DVD player where they experienced the same growth between 1997 and 1998, increasing from approximately 20 per

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to 30 per

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. Before 1999, the percentage of households with computers continuously ranked No.2 of those appliances,

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the

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of telephones overtook the place of the Internet from 1998 to 1999.