I grew up in an American suburb and dialup was the norm for me through high school (early/mid-2000s). We did have a solid 56K connection though (which usually ran at about 53.3 kbps) thanks to MSN (back when it was a full-fledged ISP and not a news aggregator).
It wasn't until the latter part of that decade that home broadband became relatively common, and it wasn't particularly fast (ca. 10 Mbps IIRC) nor symmetrical (upload speed was a small fraction of download speed). I had a friend out in the sticks who had to contend with satellite+dialup past 2010.
Decent speeds (50 Mbps+) didn't roll out en masse until the middle part of the 2010s, especially as Netflix exploded.
It wasn't until the latter part of that decade that home broadband became relatively common, and it wasn't particularly fast (ca. 10 Mbps IIRC) nor symmetrical (upload speed was a small fraction of download speed). I had a friend out in the sticks who had to contend with satellite+dialup past 2010.
Decent speeds (50 Mbps+) didn't roll out en masse until the middle part of the 2010s, especially as Netflix exploded.