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 chart illustrates the proportion of devices owned by families between 1995 and 1999. It can be highlighted that the number of all house appliances increased throughout the

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. The washing machine was the most popular machinery people had in 1995. Its number

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by 10% in the following year at nearly 70%, subtly increased in 1997, and rose consistently over the next two periods, reaching the peak at 80% in 1999. The second most chosen

devices

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device

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in 1995 was

computer

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a computer

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, at 40%. Over the next four

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, the number of families purchased

computer

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computers

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increased significantly and hit 70% in 1999, only a tenth lower than the washing machine.

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DVD

player

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players

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and

phone

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phones

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were the third and the fourth most preferred machines people had in their

home

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homes

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in the earliest period. The pattern of

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DVD player purchases dropped steeply in 1996, before climbing up gradually and hitting the same rate

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computer owners in its earliest period,

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40% of the respondents in 1999.

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the phone was quite unpopular back in 1995 which accounted for less than a fifth, its popularity rose drastically in the span of four

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and quadrupled in 1999.

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, the internet facility belonged to a mere 10% of the population in 1995, following the similar patterns of the other machineries, steadily uprose throughout the

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until half of the families

lived

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in 1999 obtained it.