Quando a internet ainda não era uma ameaça (e só havia a internet)

Do livro de 2000 de David Hendy (e a demonstrar que quando se fala do futuro - e do mesmo do presente - as analises devem ser muito cuidadosas):

«(...) not only is the fall in radio use among the young very small, but greater use of the Internet may itself help cushion any future drop. Research on the use of the Internet in British homes in 1999, for instance, suggested at while more than a third of people spend less time watching television and a quarter spend less time reading magazines since they are gone 'online', a quarter claim to spend more time listening  the radio (The Times 26 February 1999). In a similar survey in he USA, radio listening was actually down slightly in households which were online, though television watching was hit more severely (Arbitron 1999). Radio, in other words, is the medium which is most complementary to one of the fastest-growing leisure activities, namely surfing the net. This should not, of course, be surprising given radio's use as a secondary medium, listened to in the background, and precisely because it is eminently 'consumable' while doing other things. (Hendy, 2000: 128)