Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation

[Summerstorm]

I am at the turning point between Generation X and Y. And it feels like it, too.

Oh, and i had a cell phone once, but not anymore. I don't WANT to be bothered all the time *g*. I am a child of the simple old eighties, but also i firmly live in the new millenium.

 

[Skeleon]

Aha, apparently I'm Generation Y.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Wow. Am I the only X here? Or the only one to admit it?

Kids these days...

Pure Gen X here.

EDIT: You know what wigs me out? That most of you have no memory at all of the Soviet Union, that it fell before most of you were born. I grew up with the certainty that we were all eventually going to die in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Seriously. That's how we thought the world was going to end. We never worried about the ecosystem collapsing. We never figured we'd last that long.

There's so much that Gen Y/Z never really knew about. But then, can we imagine what it'd be like to hear the Goons for the first time? See colour movies?

Just remember : Mr Plough on the Simpsons first appeared seventeen years ago.
Star Wars was 32 years ago.
It's feasible that some people on here have parents that weren't alive when Star Wars came out.

 

[Brett Alex]

EDIT: You know what wigs me out? That most of you have no memory at all of the Soviet Union, that it fell before most of you were born. I grew up with the certainty that we were all eventually going to die in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Seriously. That's how we thought the world was going to end. We never worried about the ecosystem collapsing. We never figured we'd last that long.

So 20 years from now what is everyone going to be worrying about in regards to the world ending?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

So 20 years from now what is everyone going to be worrying about in regards to the world ending?

Midichlorians

Actually, that almost sounds like a topic in itself.


Oh.....dear god this scared me...

There's now a plastic cassette tape that you can plug into your Mp3 player so that you can use an in-car cassette system to play MP3's.

http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/cassette-mp3-player-stand-alone-or-car-cassette-player/

I mean...Huh????

 

[Dogstile]

Generation Y.

The best generation.

Unlike Generation Z, we didn't need our parents to teach us about technology. We're self taught, bitches.

1993 and self taught with tech

nah nah!

yeah, but you never had to learn on the ancient cr*p we had to work with. We had floppy disks the size of dinner plates, thought Oregon Trail was the best game ever, and had to walk to computer class uphill both ways.

despite that, i am /still/ self taught, my point stands

 

[traceur_]

1992, gen Y.

I don't actually like any particular modern technology, I hate mobile phones and 98% of the internet with the fiery fury of a supernova. Actually I do like modern CGI and special effects technology, the transformers movies are fucking awesome. I'm technologically retarded. Compasses, that's some technology I like.

Oh and this is brilliant:

The Greatest Generation, the generation of veterans that fought and won World War II. They were born between World War I and the mid-1920s. Journalist Tom Brokaw dubbed this the Greatest Generation in a 1998 book of the same name.

I guess only the Allies were born between WWI and the mid 20s.

 

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

im an 80's kid mind wise, i was born in '89 so i guess i am a 90's kid physically

 

[Cowabungaa]

A late Generation Y, born in late 1990. I have all the Gen Z traits, but also share the most typical of Gen Y traits: a massive generation rift between me and my parents, and I definatly remember the ol' analogue days, but that's mainly because our household lagged (still does, I don't but the rest does) behind with technology.

 

[jaammiie]

Generation Z. Don't look at me like that.

 

[theklng]

Anyway, I'm gen Y, born mid 1990.

um, generation z is mid 1990s.

i am apparently generation y. i grew up assembling computers.

 

[TheBurningFist]

I'm probably generation z but I taught myself technology so yeah... ???

 

[Goldbling]

Generation Y.

The best generation.

Unlike Generation Z, we didn't need our parents to teach us about technology. We're self taught, bitches.

To bad most of the kids in Y & Z's parents were hippies at one time and all the LSD rendered them to stupid to see that technology would be useful.

 

[Quoth]

I'm Generation X - I started using BBC Micro computers at 9 years old, which is now 27 years ago.

 

[InsanityWave]

Im Generation Z but im a 80's reject really lol, I went to see rick astley live XD

 

[Gaderael]

I guess I'm one of the first Gen Y'ers, born 1982, if the wiki is accurate. I wouldn't say we depend on tech as much as that's what we're used too. Though, I was also fortunate enough to learn other things, so that if I were to lose my computer and stuff, I would just go catatonic and drool all over myself.

 

[Littaly]

Anyway, I'm gen Y, born mid 1990.

um, generation z is mid 1990s.

i am apparently generation y. i grew up assembling computers.

Ah, I misphrased that ^^ I was born in August 1990, so in mid year 1990, not decade

Not that it really matters xD

 

[theklng]

Anyway, I'm gen Y, born mid 1990.

um, generation z is mid 1990s.

i am apparently generation y. i grew up assembling computers.

Ah, I misphrased that ^^ I was born in August 1990, so in mid year 1990, not decade

Not that it really matters xD

i see.