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Well this kid also thinks that most people on the Internet in the early 2000s were using FOSS and Linux. He doesn't know what's going on.
People were mostly using email the way we use social media: sending pictures, dumb chain emails, chatting. Instead of Instagram, you would just go to the comment section of a magazine or newspaper and post your inane ramblings there.
Yeah, email was the social media before social media especially in the 90's and early 2000's. I got into Linux in 2005 and that's also around the time Digg and Reddit started growing. I was never into social media like Myspace and Facebook but I spent a ton of my high school days on Digg.
That said I realize most millenials didn't get into FOSS or Linux but we did use computers a ton regardless, and smartphones were available by high school/college for most of us.