15 years ago, there was a big racial divide in internet access. Since then, use of the web increased dramatically, and this gap has diminished. However, as Sharad Goel, Jake Hofman and I show in our paper, substantial inequalities still persist across demographic groups. When I was working at Yahoo! with Duncan Watts, we started investigating Nielsen data on the year-long browsing history of quarter million individuals, predicting user demographics from their history and categorizing differences in online experience. This Messy Matters article discusses some of our findings.