Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials Highlight

The availability of programs like Fruity Loops opened up a whole new medium for kids. “If you didn’t work in a major recording studio, you couldn’t just be a kid that liked making beats, it didn’t work like that,” Mikey Rocks of the hip-hop duo the Cool Kids told Fader magazine. “Then Fruity Loops came and the Internet started cracking where you could get shit for free. Once you could download it, it was like, Let’s go.”