A number of people have replied to me arguing that by some measure the author's claim that they're the last "pre-internet" generation is true. Some magical cuto

A number of people have replied to me arguing that by some measure the author's claim that they're the last "pre-internet" generation is true. Some magical cutoff of saturation, whether YouTube was popular yet, smartphones, etc. The sort of qualifications that mean that every year is the new "real Internet" and everything before was just a fun and games toy and didn't really count. One of my children, born well into the 2000s, claimed exactly the same thing: They remember when you couldn't do classes online and the pre-TikTok era, etc. They remember back when people would rail about vertical videos. It goes on and on. "Kids these days". Etc.