
Before Wi-Fi was a basic utility and smartphones were glued to our hands, there was a different world. It was a world of patience, permanence, and dial-up tones. For millennials, this digital frontier was our awkward adolescence. We were the bridge generation, with one foot in the analog past and the other in the digital future.
Now, we see Gen Z navigate a world we helped build, and they do it with a native fluency we had to learn. They will never know the unique pains and triumphs of our technological youth. Here are nine millennial struggles that are basically ancient history to the next generation.