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 graph illustrates the proportion of selected technologies in the uses for a household in the U.S. from 1995 to 1999.

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, all of the use of household technologies

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an upward trend throughout the

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.The washing machine takes the largest percentage, which increases constantly from 60 to 80 per cent.

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, the figure from DVD player has the least numbers of used. It dropped in 1996

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and grew slightly from around 15 to 40 percent.

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the rest of the figures, phones and

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were sharing a similar situation in the first two

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, which both rose slowly, ranging from 10 to 20.

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, from the year 1996, the use of

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phones

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started to increase significantly in the following

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and even reached the point of 75. The percentage of the internet was growing as well, but it fluctuated lightly during the rest of the

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washing machines and phones were both closely followed by computers, which forms an interception with the figure for phones at almost 70 during 1998.