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If you were using the Internet in the early-to-mid 90s, you were using dialup. I don't think I got my first ADSL connection until 2003 or so.
 
Bullshit. Millennials didn’t have dial-up modems did they? That’s a GenX thing, too, right?
I was on dialup until well into college, and even then it wasn't proper broadband I went to, it was a 4g cellular hotspot.

My area of Florida in fact didn't get proper broadband until *checks calendar* last week.
 
To be fair, the first birth year of Millennials is usually 1981, so yeah, they'd fall in the dial-up group. Gen Z, if you're the oldest part of that generation, *might* have experienced the last gasps of dial-up, if they remember it.
 
Hmm...
First personal computer that I actually OWNED was either late 1991 or early 1992, paired with a v.34 modem (28.8/33.6).
Broadband of any kind was not really available (without cable) in my area until 2003, I can't remember if I signed up with SBC Yahoo DSL then or waited until 2006 when U-Verse came out. Either way, it's been broadband of one form or another ever since.

--Patrick
 

figmentPez

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To be fair, the first birth year of Millennials is usually 1981, so yeah, they'd fall in the dial-up group. Gen Z, if you're the oldest part of that generation, *might* have experienced the last gasps of dial-up, if they remember it.
And even then, for most of those, it'd just be "that noise that my parents' computer made sometimes."
That puts my younger sisters as Millennials, and I guarantee you that they both know the modem noise as something they used to connect to the internet. They were in their mid to late teens by the time we got our first cable modem.

We were far from the last area to switch over to broadband, too. When I was having an LDR in my mid twenties the woman I was dating was using dial-up. She wasn't a millennial, but I was ~25 and the oldest millennials were 23 at the time! There are millennials who were adults, living on their own, and using AOL dial-up because broadband adoption took so long in some areas.

Dial-up was in use for a lot longer than you seem to think it was.
 
we had personal computers since I was like 4 or 5 in 1991, and have had some sort of internet since that. I was born in 87, but maybe I am an outlier?
 

GasBandit

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we had personal computers since I was like 4 or 5 in 1991, and have had some sort of internet since that. I was born in 87, but maybe I am an outlier?
Some sort of internet is not the issue here - it's when you moved over from dialup to broadband. I had "internet" in 94 - on a 28.8 kbaud modem. But cable modems weren't really available in my area until after 97, and even then, I didn't get one til around 2003.
 

figmentPez

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Please keep in mind that this is a millennial:
Clint of Lazy Game Reviews.jpg


That's Clint Basinger of Lazy Game Reviews (born in 1986). That shelf of old software isn't stuff from before his time, it's mostly stuff that he grew up with. He absolutely knows the sound of dial-up internet, from first hand experience, using it while he grew up downloading shareware from BBSes.
 
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