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* Lampshaded by [[Kid Rock]] in "All Summer Long" when he sings "it was 1989" and "we didn't have no Internet".
** The Internet very much did exist in the 1980s, but it was a research network which primarily linked universities. The AOLers weren't turned loose to run amok until the Internet was commercialised in the [[Eternal September]] of 1993. In 1989, the university might have gotten around to removing the last of the [[Party Line Telephone]]s from the dormitory rooms.
* ''Les amoureux de l'an 2000'' (Lara Fabian, 1996) tries to see [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]], opening with the brief (and supposedly futuristic) sound of screeching dial-up modem tones before the actual music. The initial deployments of Internet as a consumer product in 1993-95 were largely dial-up (and slow), but cable companies were widely peddling broadband just before the turn of the millennium. A decade later, new laptops no longer included dial-up modems as standard equipment, as they'd outlived their usefulness as a stop-gap measure to get Internet to homes.
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