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So the average millennial actually used a PC regularly for these things? When I look online, I see something like only 15% of households had a PC in 1990, which is about what I expected. But then there's school and libraries.



Yes.

> When I look online, I see something like only 15% of households had a PC in 1990

Millennials go from 80 to 95. The oldest millennials were 9 at 1990. Just 5 years later, 1995, household computers rose to 39% in the US.

For most millennials that boom in computers happened right at their formative years. The millennials were also driving a lot of it. Parents got computers for their kids.




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