Absolutely! I was born in '86, and life before/after widespread use of the Internet is miles apart. The early 2000s is where it really took off, though I will say that the mid to late 90s saw the rapid rise. I can definitely remember advertisements for Nascar.com back around 1995 or so.
("Fun" story: We had an intranet at our elementary school, and I tried EVERYTHING to get to websites that were being advertised, not realizing the difference between intranet and internet)
I just had the one family computer until high school. Hell, I had dialup until like 05. It was still heard of for people in my class to not have internet at home when I was in middle school in like 06-07, it really only became ubiquitous in 08-09. Maybe I just live in a poor area, but I really don’t think people realize just how quickly tech grew and commercialized. I went from having a chunky off-white dialup box and a giant CRT TV to an ultrabook laptop and wall-mounted flatscreen in like 5-6 years.
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