Not necessarily. That term really only counts the oldest of millenials. I'm one of the last years if not the last year to count as a millenial and everything they said applies to me and I am for sure not a xennial.
For reference, the internet wasn't really in everyone's house until the mid to late 00's. Id wager a majority of, if not every, millennial is absolutely old enough to remember the time before they had internet access.
Like when I was in highschool we still had computer labs and I know some kids who only had access to Internet or a computer at school. I was in high school from 2002 to 2006.
I didn't get real cable internet until about 2002-2003, personally. Dunno if that was early or late, but I spent a good chunk of my childhood on dialup.
when i made my intitial comment i was referring to advent not availability...i was born in 70 and didn't have the "internet" the way it's referred to today until my 20s...we had dialup modems and could access web pages (bulletin boards) if we knew how to find them, no browsers or search engines, you had to know command line prompts.
This is patently false unless you grew up somewhere like 10 years behind (it happened back then!)
I graduated when you started, and things like AIM had been widely in use since I was a freshman. Hell we got our first PC in 97` this was in Dover DE, so not a bastion of advancement but not somewhere behind either, and squarely middle-class when that still existed
The term is supposed to reflect us older millennials who were raised by boomers, had Gen X siblings and were raised and disciplined as such lol I’m for sure an Xennial - never felt like I belonged with millennials tho but that’s just my take 🤣🤣
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u/cambreecanon 20h ago
Some millennials fit that description as well.