The graph below shows the percentage of households with different kinds of technology in the US from 1995 to 1999. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main feature and make comparions where relevant.

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line graph illustrates the percentage of families with different kinds of technologies in the United States between 1995 and 1999. It is clear from the graph that all proportions of technology increased over the five-year period. In terms of the figure, the share of families using washing machines was consistently higher than all other percentages of technology. In 1995, 60% of households owned washing machines, higher than the proportions of all other kinds of technology including computers, DVD players, phones, and the Internet.

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figure increased steadily in the five years, rising to 80% in 1999.

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the percentage of families who owned the Internet was 10%, which was lower than all other technologies, and went up five-fold to 50% in 1999.

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, the proportion of households using DVD players dropped

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1995 and 1996, falling to around 15%. Later on, it caught up with the Internet from 1997 to 1998 but fell behind it afterwards, and

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reached 40% in 1999, which was the lowest figure among all the technologies in that year.