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The year millennials aged out of the Internet

It is the Zoomers’ Web now, and it is quite different from that of the millennials.

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According to consumer research firm GWI, millennials’ screen time has been on a steady decline for years.

According to consumer research firm GWI, millennials’ screen time has been on a steady decline for years.

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For my entire professional life, I have started nearly every weekday morning with an extremely important productivity ritual: I make a coffee, I sit down at my computer, and I mess around on the Internet for an hour or so.

And, for most of my career as a writer, this has been an effortless task. I have had accounts on dozens of social networks, message boards and online communities thronging with similarly bored and truant peers, vibrant with creativity and delight. Or, at least, with tolerably decent jokes.

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