I'm what is often referred to as an "Older Millennial." Which does a pretty good job of deflating my ego, but also means that I remember what it was like to not have the internet.
My family got our first computer when I was already seven or eight years old, and we only had dial-up. I would stay up all night chatting on message boards because my family couldn't afford a second phone line for the internet during the day.
Napster and the pirated music boom? Oh, I was in it. Downloading one crappy-quality song at a time over the course of several hours and then burning a maximum of 12-15 tracks onto a blank CD.
When the original iPod came out, the idea of having dozens of songs on one small device was mind-boggling.
And now I can stream pretty much every song ever written.
Listening to people not even a decade older than us complain how "Millennials" don't know what it's like to have been without the internet.
Millennials are grown-ups now. They can vote, drink, buy houses, and the oldest of us are the parents of teenagers.
I just want to be able to start complaining about "kids these days" without being lumped in with them, okay?
