[malikNF]

He mentions he was born in 1989, so it makes sense to talk about pre internet. Till the mid 2000s the internet was not this available. Growing up we didn't have ADSL till around 2004-2005. And even then it was 512mb/s. Yes the internet was invented a long while before that, pre-internet in this context makes sense to me as time before the internet existed this widely, and at these speeds.

[itronitron]

There was a huge difference between 1992 and 1994. The internet was readily available by 1995 when the author would have been 5 or 6 years old. Some people would argue that 1995 was peak-internet, not pre-internet.

[sn9]

It was available but barely had any penetration.

Notably this was pre- social media and smartphones which were the societal phase change most people think of as the line of demarcation.

[gardenhedge]

Who would argue that? Most people were not using the Internet in 1995

[fragmede]

Exactly. Everybody tired of it being September (since 1993!) would argue that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[idiotsecant]

I think you might have picked up a magnitude there.

[blangk]

ADSL at 512mbit is out of spec; tops out somewhere at 24 in the best case i think