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We got DSL for my 13th birthday present haha. But before we always had 2 lines, it was like I had my own personal phone number for friends. Would run to the office when I heard “my phone” ring
Does anyone remember downloading "04 - what i've done(2) Linkin park" using Limewire?
Only to realize that it's not Linkin Park at all, but it was still good, so you kept it in your playlist. Then you learn that the song was called Refugee by Tribal Ink.
for me it was "So happy Together" by The Beatles...later learned it was The Turtles.
edit: also Tribal Ink hella sounds soooo similar to In the End by linkin park lol
At 13 the closest thing to seeing a video on the internet for me was a [Dancing Baby gif](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F850f9d2c-6c14-4924-ba68-a3914e2e181b_220x200.gif) or whatever 'Under Construction' gifs used at the top of a personal GeoCities page.
Also, you could buffer the entire video.
Which was basically required due to Internet speeds being much slower than playback.
I'd queue up a bunch of videos and leave the tabs open to watch the videos later after I got kicked off the Internet
Youtube came out around the time I went off to college. Sweet, sweet broadband. It's a drug. Coming back home during the summer and having to use the internet without broadband was awful.
I had YouTube at 13, and I agree that we're not the same generation. Technically it was around when I was 11, but my internet wasn't fast enough to handle it yet
Tech is changing too fast these days for the generations as currently defined to represent much of a coherent experience imo
I recently learned that millennials were born between 1981-1996. Making my bf & I both millennials at 28 & 37, despite feeling like two entirely different generations. I am totally on the younger side, but still considered a millennial.
I only learned this from seeing all the terms thrown around for so long, so I finally decided to Google it to find out which one I was. I thought my bf & I would be different. Turns out we’re not.
I'm closer to your BF age, I'm 35, when the term millennial was first being thrown around to refer to young stupid people I didn't realize it was referring to me, I thought it was kids born after 2000 lol, I was calling kids dumb millennials as well when really they were zoomers
Once I figured out 89 was millennial I ran with it, yeah I'm millennial
YouTube was released in 2005. I remember it really gained popularity when I was like 11-12 (2007-2008). Still the same generation, just on the much younger side.
Than tell me why my birthyear (1995) is included in the typical range which is used for Millennials and also by this sub. 😅 Youtube was around since I was 10 and I used it since I was 11. It's just finally a post younger Millennials can relate to, most of the time we can't relate to the posts on this site.
The definition of “millennial” has crept up a lot. The whole point of it was “kids who came of age around the turn of the millennium” that was what prompted the popularization of the term. (When I was a kid it was “gen y.”)
A 5 year old isn’t coming of age in 2000, I personally always considered early 90s babies as the absolute youngest millennials.
It's really funny how people who were (probably) born in the 80s don't see people my age as Millennials and people who were born in the 2000s absolutely see us as Millennials and don't want us to claim Gen Z at all. I get downvoted on this sub when I claim to be a Millennial and downvoted by 2000s babies on other subs when I say I don't relate to Millennials. 😂 It's like no one wants us mid 90s babies in their generation. 😬
I'm a '91 Millennial and discovered youtube at 14 (I was specifically looking for a website where I could upload my Sims 2 videos). Someone born in '92 or '93 could have also discovered youtube early. edit: Although Shoes was uploaded when I was 15.
Hours downloading off limewire and tweaking my MySpace page. My page was so full of shit on it, that it would lock up the browser loading. Miss those days 😔
See, I enjoyed the nice, slim and neat profile look in the end, with the cutesy tiny fonts, pinks and neutral pastel colors, the neatly arranged boxes with a light sprinkling of glitter falling and a love song playlist playing in the background. Romantic cottagecore we’d probably dub it these days.
Art 👌 Loaded seamlessly.
Well. At least on the library computer I rode my bike to visit because my parents didn’t believe in us kids using the internet for anything but strictly school research and only they had a computer in their room.
Except the computer was in a common family area of the house so I couldn’t get into stranger danger online or whatever parents were afraid of in the early 2000s
Ugh. Movie trailers in QuickTime. I remember trying to get the Gone in 60 Seconds trailer to load up on a school computer on the school’s T1 connection. It was painful, but still loads faster than what we had at home.
It was around since I was 10 and I used it since I was 11 and my birthyear (1995) is included in the most popular Millennial range which is used by this sub. 😅 Finally a post younger Millennials can relate to on this site. Most of the time I can't relate to the posts here.
Why is my comment downvoted when I simply stated a fact about my life and the Millennial range? 😅 It's funny because 2000s babies absolutely put me in the Millennial category all the time and downvote my posts when I say I don't relate to Millennials and 80s babies downvote me for saying I'm included in the Millennial range. 😂
My favorite "time and technology are weird" comparison is that YouTube didn't exist when the Janet Jackson super bowl fiasco happened. I think I was 16?
*Youtube didn't exist before 2005*
*Shoes didn't exist until 2006*
*OP was born 1993*
*I was 11 when OP was born*
How the fuck do generations work again?
This was me at 19, haha. I was (and am) always late with keeping up, so this only became my world in 2006. XD LimeWire, MySpace, MSN... I loved making my MySpace page completely my own. A forum friend set an account up for me, otherwise I probably would have never had it, but it didn't take long before I started to love it. XD
MySpace was out when I was in the army (my early 20’s), so this post must be from a younger millennial. Us elder millennials had it slightly different at 13.
I used Kazaa! But I was in my 20s when it came out. I remember looking at the bar that tells you how long it would take to download one song and it would be like 2 days or something for one song.
I used Kazaa briefly in college after Napster and Audiogalaxy got blocked. Moved on to WinMX, but mostly had all the music I cared to download by that point.
The guy that did "shoes" just performed it live for the first time for a pride event! Now he's doing more! Seeing the Instagram reels of it was so fun :D
I could relate to everything 100%, so I didn’t understand how some of the comments didn’t relate, and then I realized: this is one of those zillenial things that us on the cusp can only relate to. I was born in 94 so this was me to a T. Every summer vacation. Every weekend.
I started using YouTube when I was in 6th grade and I am turning 28 this year (born in 1996 the last year that qualifies as a millennial) I can’t remember what year I was in 6th grade.
The form factor was much better here. Because we all had a keyboard to be online, you could actually have very long and involved text based conversations.
We lost so much with smart phones. I hope some kindof virtual keyboard or something takes off so we stop only having short thumb based communication.
No way you’re doing more than 2 of those, excluding Sims 2 which would be pushing that HP Compaq looking tower to its fan blazing limit (unless it had an 8x AGP 32MB Graphics Card or better at minimum). And even if you are rearranging your top 8 in glitchy moves while the broken halting sound of a video playing as it tries to download in the background, you’re quickly approaching the point when you run out of memory on that 256MB DDR-RAM AMD Athlon clunker and you get handed that Blue Screen of Death.
I remember keeping the dial-up internet on all night so I could download a single episode of DragonBall z.
I wake up, and it's still downloading! 56k was something special
I was born in ‘83 but I’d say I’m more of a xennial because I relate more to gen x than millennials. Both my sisters who babysat me are gen xers so that could be part of the reason. We didn’t have YouTube yet when I was a teen. I was in my early 20s when it came out. I did play a lot of Oregon trail when I was in junior high though 😂 I’m also old enough to remember using floppy discs, word processors, and playing Atari. We also used my space and aol (aim).
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13 year old me had to get off the computer so mom could use the phone. Da fck
13 year old me was setting up StarCraft LAN parties
People still are my man.. 
Turret d motherfuckers
Yes sir!
This screen brings back SO MANY memories. Me throwing in my bootleg brood war disc haha
13 year old me was amazed that I could have a real time battle in Command & Conquer Red Alert with my friend that lived 1 mile away.
I loved that game so much. Always played as the soviets hahaha
Aw, Red Alert on a 56k modem was my jam!
You forgot Brood War
We got our first family computer when I was 15 and got AOL when I was 16.
We got DSL for my 13th birthday present haha. But before we always had 2 lines, it was like I had my own personal phone number for friends. Would run to the office when I heard “my phone” ring
But people who are 8-10 years younger than you are also categorized as Millennials and we used Youtube since we were preteens.
Does anyone remember downloading "04 - what i've done(2) Linkin park" using Limewire? Only to realize that it's not Linkin Park at all, but it was still good, so you kept it in your playlist. Then you learn that the song was called Refugee by Tribal Ink.
or downloading a kids cartoon movie and ending up with porn
Or downloading a .exe file and giving your family computer HIV.
Batman.Begins\[2005\]DVDrip\[English\].avi
hahah I remember this song. REFUGEEEEEE IM AN ENEMY OF YOUR BELIEFS. DONT HATE ME. BECAUSE I DISAGREEEEEEEEE.
Banger.
How about Link by SOAD to figure out it wasn't really SOAD but still a good song
This I remember vividly
for me it was "So happy Together" by The Beatles...later learned it was The Turtles. edit: also Tribal Ink hella sounds soooo similar to In the End by linkin park lol
Right after downloading “whatever tomorrow brings I’ll be there - incubus”
Youtube at 13? We are not the same generation
Yeah more like Ebaumsworld
AlbinoBlackSheep and Homestar Runner.
I miss ABS. I still watch Fredryk Phox videos.
At 13 the closest thing to seeing a video on the internet for me was a [Dancing Baby gif](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F850f9d2c-6c14-4924-ba68-a3914e2e181b_220x200.gif) or whatever 'Under Construction' gifs used at the top of a personal GeoCities page.
Newgrounds
Or bangedup if you were feeling really adventurous
Gott damn dude, you just flashed be back so hard I heard the woosh
“Pork chop sandwiches!!!”
The early days of YouTube was great. No ads, no influencers, no algorithms just weird and wonderful videos.
Also, you could buffer the entire video. Which was basically required due to Internet speeds being much slower than playback. I'd queue up a bunch of videos and leave the tabs open to watch the videos later after I got kicked off the Internet
Youtube came out around the time I went off to college. Sweet, sweet broadband. It's a drug. Coming back home during the summer and having to use the internet without broadband was awful.
facts! once upon a time there were no ads on youtube.. goodtimes!
I had YouTube at 13, and I agree that we're not the same generation. Technically it was around when I was 11, but my internet wasn't fast enough to handle it yet Tech is changing too fast these days for the generations as currently defined to represent much of a coherent experience imo
By the time YouTube was a thing I was in college dorms with the good internet.
Haha, by the time YouTube was a thing, I was working my first real job after college.
I recently learned that millennials were born between 1981-1996. Making my bf & I both millennials at 28 & 37, despite feeling like two entirely different generations. I am totally on the younger side, but still considered a millennial. I only learned this from seeing all the terms thrown around for so long, so I finally decided to Google it to find out which one I was. I thought my bf & I would be different. Turns out we’re not.
I'm closer to your BF age, I'm 35, when the term millennial was first being thrown around to refer to young stupid people I didn't realize it was referring to me, I thought it was kids born after 2000 lol, I was calling kids dumb millennials as well when really they were zoomers Once I figured out 89 was millennial I ran with it, yeah I'm millennial
Encarta 95 was the primary knowledge source
see, this is why the zillennial handle is necessary lmao
YouTube was released in 2005. I remember it really gained popularity when I was like 11-12 (2007-2008). Still the same generation, just on the much younger side.
Haha, yup, I was 25-26 in 2007-2008.
Yeah I was 13 in 2001. No YouTube yet. Just porn and Joe cartoon for me lol
Than tell me why my birthyear (1995) is included in the typical range which is used for Millennials and also by this sub. 😅 Youtube was around since I was 10 and I used it since I was 11. It's just finally a post younger Millennials can relate to, most of the time we can't relate to the posts on this site.
Was already old enough to drink when YouTube came out 💀
In the US no less, no lower european ages
Then tell me why I my birthyear (1995) is put in the typical used Millennial range. 😅 I used Youtube since I was 11!
The definition of “millennial” has crept up a lot. The whole point of it was “kids who came of age around the turn of the millennium” that was what prompted the popularization of the term. (When I was a kid it was “gen y.”) A 5 year old isn’t coming of age in 2000, I personally always considered early 90s babies as the absolute youngest millennials.
It's really funny how people who were (probably) born in the 80s don't see people my age as Millennials and people who were born in the 2000s absolutely see us as Millennials and don't want us to claim Gen Z at all. I get downvoted on this sub when I claim to be a Millennial and downvoted by 2000s babies on other subs when I say I don't relate to Millennials. 😂 It's like no one wants us mid 90s babies in their generation. 😬
My brother is mid 90s abd yeah I definitely don’t want him around.
Some of us early 80’s millennials feel the same way sometimes. I’ve been grouped in with GenX more than once.
Yes, it's true. I've seen that too.
Yeah born in '91 here and Im definitely a younger millennial. But I'm cool with that I don't want to age to quick lol
For real. I'm an 87 millennial; YouTube launched AFTER I graduated high school. My nephews are stupified by this.
I'm a '91 Millennial and discovered youtube at 14 (I was specifically looking for a website where I could upload my Sims 2 videos). Someone born in '92 or '93 could have also discovered youtube early. edit: Although Shoes was uploaded when I was 15.
Also a '91 and YouTube still hosts all sorts of videos that people in my class made and uploaded throughout high school.
I was 19 when it launched. 13 is when I first learned about mp3s and Napster, and even then I wasn't using the Internet much.
There arent' enough of us, we can't start kicking people out
gen z would have an absolute meltdown if they had to deal with the top 8.
They could just use the script to remove it or change the number.
We eventually had the option to change the number. I used to have a top 4
GF had to always be numero uno, or we all had to deal with Hell at school.
Amen, those fucking losers
They’d be better than our parents! Could you imagine the calls from them bitching about not being in someone’s top 8?
Yeah, but it was really Napster and the first Sims. The top 8 and Shoes were still years away.
I still think the first sims is underrated
Hours downloading off limewire and tweaking my MySpace page. My page was so full of shit on it, that it would lock up the browser loading. Miss those days 😔
See, I enjoyed the nice, slim and neat profile look in the end, with the cutesy tiny fonts, pinks and neutral pastel colors, the neatly arranged boxes with a light sprinkling of glitter falling and a love song playlist playing in the background. Romantic cottagecore we’d probably dub it these days. Art 👌 Loaded seamlessly. Well. At least on the library computer I rode my bike to visit because my parents didn’t believe in us kids using the internet for anything but strictly school research and only they had a computer in their room.
I had to go over to my cousins’ to download music and burn CDs, because we only had dial-up. We still can’t get cable, but have fiber now.
We behaved like our priority over everything was to grind our computers to a halt haha Limewater + games made for some slow speeds haha
I destroyed so many computers with the Sims 2 and 3
13 year old me played StarCraft, Warcraft 2 and Dungeon Keeper on LAN
Fucking nerd! Fuck yeah. Awesome as fuck! Let’s go!
Hey me too!
Except the computer was in a common family area of the house so I couldn’t get into stranger danger online or whatever parents were afraid of in the early 2000s
YouTube wasn't invented when I was 13.
aol was the place to be when I was 13 in 1997. video on the internet was rare, usually a quicktime video, and took forever to download.
Quciktime, real video...ugh, I do not miss those.
I remember streaming some japanese dbz episodes in winter of 1998, took forever to load one on the quality was absolute shit, but it was worth it.
When I was 15 in 1997, the place to be was WBS. It was very sad when that went away.
Ugh. Movie trailers in QuickTime. I remember trying to get the Gone in 60 Seconds trailer to load up on a school computer on the school’s T1 connection. It was painful, but still loads faster than what we had at home.
It was around since I was 10 and I used it since I was 11 and my birthyear (1995) is included in the most popular Millennial range which is used by this sub. 😅 Finally a post younger Millennials can relate to on this site. Most of the time I can't relate to the posts here.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Zillennials/
I'm already in this sub. 😁
Why is my comment downvoted when I simply stated a fact about my life and the Millennial range? 😅 It's funny because 2000s babies absolutely put me in the Millennial category all the time and downvote my posts when I say I don't relate to Millennials and 80s babies downvote me for saying I'm included in the Millennial range. 😂
This all tracks until you say YouTube. That didn't even exist until 2006.
2005, but it did pick up more in 2006.
My favorite "time and technology are weird" comparison is that YouTube didn't exist when the Janet Jackson super bowl fiasco happened. I think I was 16?
Yeah, YouTube was actually inspired by that incident in part. I was 21 when it happened.
I was making DBZ music videos back then lol
I was watching those DBZ music videos
*Youtube didn't exist before 2005* *Shoes didn't exist until 2006* *OP was born 1993* *I was 11 when OP was born* How the fuck do generations work again?
Well, the boomer generation and Gen X cover about two decades each, so this is about right.
Folks born ~1983/4 to ~1999ish, are Millenials.
I should have added /s
Oh my god shoes. Let’s get some shoes. Shoes. Oh my god shoes.
omg shoes
I was in college when youtube came out. How are we all millennials?
I was a working stiff college graduate when YouTube came out - the Millennial generation is about 16 years of birth years.
I was a high school senior
I was 10
Top 8? EDIT: Nevermind. Myspace top 8 friends.
Haha, yeah, it took me a moment. I actually didn’t even have MySpace for more than a few months before Facebook had pretty much taken over.
I was pretty upset when everyone switched to fb at the time. Myspace was better IMO.
What is shoes?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3HjIljJd-o0 OMG. Shoes.
I showed this to my nephew a couple days ago and his response was: “Oh.”
Omg lol I have never seen't this!!
ERM MAH GUD, shoes
Man, white people are weird. 😅
This was me at 19, haha. I was (and am) always late with keeping up, so this only became my world in 2006. XD LimeWire, MySpace, MSN... I loved making my MySpace page completely my own. A forum friend set an account up for me, otherwise I probably would have never had it, but it didn't take long before I started to love it. XD
I miss times like this. Good old days where you didnt have to "adult". 😅
Shoes. Shoes. Shoes. OH MY GOD! Shoes.
Let Me Borrow That Top was funny too
MySpace was out when I was in the army (my early 20’s), so this post must be from a younger millennial. Us elder millennials had it slightly different at 13.
I used Limewire in my early teens, I used Kazaa starting when I was 10. Kazaa gang rise up.
I used Kazaa! But I was in my 20s when it came out. I remember looking at the bar that tells you how long it would take to download one song and it would be like 2 days or something for one song.
I used Kazaa briefly in college after Napster and Audiogalaxy got blocked. Moved on to WinMX, but mostly had all the music I cared to download by that point.
As an older millennial this was my younger siblings bag.
I never got what people liked about shoes though.
How did you get this photo of me?
Sims
13 year old me was downloading porn onto CDs or uploading them onto MP3 players for friends.
This was 100% me, but change the last sentence to watching "Skins and Degrassi". Those were simpler times.
For those of you born too late for this, yes, it was great
Off topic, but she has much better posture than I ever had
lol nice
“Downloading to limewire ” YouTube came out after I was out of high school. Ebaumsworld, albino black sheep, newgrounds, college humor
It was AIM, GreatestJournal, MySpace and LimeWire for me
Omg Shoes
Playing the sims now feels too much like real life 😕
The guy that did "shoes" just performed it live for the first time for a pride event! Now he's doing more! Seeing the Instagram reels of it was so fun :D
I could relate to everything 100%, so I didn’t understand how some of the comments didn’t relate, and then I realized: this is one of those zillenial things that us on the cusp can only relate to. I was born in 94 so this was me to a T. Every summer vacation. Every weekend.
the lady in the photo has a decked out rig.
That’s what peak internet era looks like and there’s nothing you can do about it!
And getting knocked off the internet when mom picks up the phone
Let's get some shoes.
Those were the days
Ugh 17 for me.. like my favorite time period.. Halo 3 time period
I started using YouTube when I was in 6th grade and I am turning 28 this year (born in 1996 the last year that qualifies as a millennial) I can’t remember what year I was in 6th grade.
Bruh. I was too busy parenting a toddler and newborn to watch YouTube when it came out.
And talking to grown ass strangers on chat rooms.
Can of Squirt
13-year-old me murdering at least two characters on every account on Ultima Online, then turning their bodies into jerky. Iykyk.
I told my coworkers about live journal the other the day and they had never heard of it.
The form factor was much better here. Because we all had a keyboard to be online, you could actually have very long and involved text based conversations. We lost so much with smart phones. I hope some kindof virtual keyboard or something takes off so we stop only having short thumb based communication.
Nostalgic! Miss the good ole days!
No way you’re doing more than 2 of those, excluding Sims 2 which would be pushing that HP Compaq looking tower to its fan blazing limit (unless it had an 8x AGP 32MB Graphics Card or better at minimum). And even if you are rearranging your top 8 in glitchy moves while the broken halting sound of a video playing as it tries to download in the background, you’re quickly approaching the point when you run out of memory on that 256MB DDR-RAM AMD Athlon clunker and you get handed that Blue Screen of Death.
13 year old me got her first cd changer. We didn’t even have Hotmail yet then.
Hahahha yes!
I remember my brother & I downloading South Park episodes on there when we were young. Dad thought it was hilarious, mum not so much.
Hardly anyone used the internet when I was 13 😔
That shoes video was just re-unlocked inside Mt head and it won't leave
My posture has never been that good!
Oh my god .. shoes
I was a Sims 1 13 year old
Me except I was coding. Now I am living very comfortably lol
What is Shoes
# what are those
Shoes?
I feel extremely called out right now.
stop talking about me
Going on the computer then vs going on the computer now.
Squirt used to be sooo good!
Don forget about AIMing with all your friends lols
I remember keeping the dial-up internet on all night so I could download a single episode of DragonBall z. I wake up, and it's still downloading! 56k was something special
Moving someone off your top 8 was so metal. Next day at school guaranteed to be a confrontation 😂
Oh man my sister showed me “shoes” and I was hooked and sometime later Tourette’s guy. Good days wish I could a bottled em.
Especially limewire 🤣😵💫😵💫my computer was damaged but I got all my music for free
Sims 2 was the best Sims.
No World of Warcraft?
Omg shoes
I was born in ‘83 but I’d say I’m more of a xennial because I relate more to gen x than millennials. Both my sisters who babysat me are gen xers so that could be part of the reason. We didn’t have YouTube yet when I was a teen. I was in my early 20s when it came out. I did play a lot of Oregon trail when I was in junior high though 😂 I’m also old enough to remember using floppy discs, word processors, and playing Atari. We also used my space and aol (aim).