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Unless you were poor or from the third world (which disqualifies you from the mainstream cultural narrtive of the time) every household had a computer by like 04.
It was a tossup if a kid was allowed to use it but adults definetly used them for email, mapquest, and various work related tasks.
On top of this if you worked in an office you had a computer right in front of you all day, likely one connected to the internet for which many slacking office workers would share memes and short videos. Virality was mainly dictated by the bored late 20 something in the office.
By 08 all schools had computer labs and as a kid growing up in the 2000s you were explicitly taught how to use one but few had the oversight to block websites meaning that kids would just go online and play flash games or watch youtube.
And as for the original bush question here is a vid
https://youtu.be/z8Q-sRdV7SY