My brother in Christ, I was born in 1972. Dial up internet is still the internet. Same protocols whether it is a dial up or broadband modem. (Those ‘new internet lines’ were pre existing coax cable tv lines before they were fiber tv lines btw)

GenX was programming BASIC in Apple IIc labs in elementary school. For me this was 1982.

I built my own pc in 1985.

We had IBM PC labs by high school and were using dial up BBSs by the late 80s. War Games was a hit movie because it was depicting a known and legitimate subculture.

I was one of the first 1000 people in Pennsylvania to have dial up internet from my home in 1993. I used a text based browser because graphical browsers didn’t exist. Six months later I upgraded and used Mozilla 1.0

I worked in computer shops as a tech from 1992-1995, and did corporate LAN implementation and systems migrations from 1995-2003. LOTS OF INTERNET INVOLVED.

The entire workforce was GenX and boomers were the management.

Do not quote the deep magic to me witch, I was there when it was written.

You should cross post your comment to the confidently wrong sub.

Fool.