Did most household have the internet in 2004 ?

Many. I wouldn't say most. That took a few more years. \~1998-2000 we finally ditched our modem for actual "DSL" (which, up until then, was a magical mystical thing in the UK that you only heard about from Americans talking to you on mIRC). We were both very techy (I set up an IT business and worked exclusively in IT) but at home we still had a modem at first, and I was unusual at university because I was able to FTP my coursework direct to the university AND I would go in on weekends just to use their blazing first leased line (it was probably 10 or 100Mbps). I would spend much of the weekend copying stuff onto disks, taking them home, and then uncompressing them onto my computer at home. Nobody else I knew bothered to do that, and if they did have a modem at home they didn't know how to use it. By 2000/2001 we had DSL at home, mainly because dad got pissed off with us tying up the phone line all day and all night. I think a lot of people had modems, but I doubt "most" did. I had computer friends from school, etc. and they were still using only a modem until about 1999 or so, for sure. We had all still watched 9/11 happening on ordinary TV, though, and only a few of us were on American websites finding out what happened. By 2004... DSL was a common thing, adverts for it were everywhere, and people were starting to get used to things having a "dotcom" on TV and newspaper adverts, etc. For context Amazon started selling things other than books in the UK in 1999 (and my Amazon account is older than that!). Steam didn't release until 2003 (and there was uproar with the release of HL2 when people realised that you still had to download HUNDREDS OF MEGS of game, even if you had the pre-order CD). I can remember many people without DSL at the time being very pissed-off that it took several days to update so they could actually play it (and they all hated on Steam as they didn't want a future like that... until they got DSL themselves later on). So no... DSL was around, people used it, you could buy it easily, BT sold it, and many people had it. But "most"? Probably not.