someone said that bc bo burham is 30 he's actually a boomer and is making fun of the internet in that one song of his bc he wasn't 'raised' by it and it's like. you know the internet existed before 2008, right? like it was very much usable
You can’t tell me dial-up was useable
dial up was worse in so so many ways but to say that the internet wasn't a thing or that thousands of people didn't use the internet every day when dialup was a thing isn't true, especially considering neopets even launched in 1999, when bo would have been 10. the internet just didn't have as many pictures or all the types of files and bandwidth it does today.
forums and IRC chats thrived during this time and even past that, broadband started in the early 2000s. 'dial up' WAS usable in the way that 1mb of data was usable when we sent astronauts to space. it was usable in the way that the gameboy advance had games that topped out at 16 MBs. my phone can take pictures that are twice that amount now. it was usable in the way that we had myspace and the way that despite the modern internet 'started' around 2009, there was so so much more prior to that and thousands of people who are now thirty did grow up with dialup, and were raised by an internet that doesn't exist anymore in the way it does now.
when an entire webpage is 2mb, a dialup speed is pretty usable, all things considered. things not being instantaneous like they are now doesn't mean they weren't usable. they just worked with what they had.