📱 The Specific Stress of Early Internet Life

If you didn’t grow up slightly terrified of the internet… did you even have a childhood? 😭

• “MUM I’M ON THE INTERNET!!” like it was a public service announcement
• The dial-up noise exposing your entire plan to the household
• Someone picking up the house phone = immediate betrayal
• Accidentally clicking something and thinking you’d broken the computer forever
• Closing a pop-up like you were defusing a bomb
• That one website taking 3–5 business days to load
• Getting kicked off MSN mid-conversation and acting like your life just ended
• “Don’t click anything!!” okay but everything looks clickable???

Honestly… we weren’t online, we were SURVIVING 💀

Who else lived through this chaos? 👇