Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation

[Jirlond]

Im an 80's kid although I never used the internet till I was 17. Not my fault my only computer class was away from the nice new computing rooms they made in the school and we were taught on the old 1984 Macintosh with the floppy disc drive and a screen smaller than my sat nav.

 

[Lord George]

I think I'm generation Y, ahh the giddy days of the N64, finally getting one of those new computer things and experiencing the wonders of dial up the 90's rocked.

 

[Markness]

I was born in 1991. Just in time to have to live with dial-up and now I can say I remember the old days when we were impressed by 20kp/s download speeds.

 

[akmarksman]

Generation Y.

The best generation.

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

Gen Y here as well and QFT!

 

[Lazarus Long]

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

Kids these days...

 

[Woem]

MTV Generation, '82.

 

[Tossth Esalad]

Technically I'm a gen-Y'er, but in my head I'm more of a gen-X'er.

 

[Littaly]

Do I smell a Who reference?

Anyway, I'm gen Y, born mid 1990. I enjoyed Saturday Morning Cartoons and playing outside when I was a child, occasionally drooling over the luckier kids/cousins with their video game machines. Also, when my family got a home computer (with this weir thing called Internet), that was still kinda cool, not everybody had those.

As I grew up I became more tech addicted, computers, game consoles, CD-players, DVD, mobile phones, digital cameras etc. So I guess I was born just as the analog stuff died and the digital was born.

 

[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!

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Born Generation Y, have most of the mannerisms of Generation Y person, but I like the 60s most.

 

[Danzaivar]

Ah this is brilliant. Everyone from "Generation X" or earlier just says it and gets on with it. Then people from "Generation Z" are like "Yeah, but I'm totally more inkeeping with (other) generation!".

Firmly in the Y camp here, literally grown up alongside technology. Remember when the master system was first released and seen games consoles and mobiles grow up as I have. Wouldn't have had it any other way.

 

[Insert Comedy Here]

According to the show this thread is based on, I'm a Generation X, despite being born in Y.

 

[Casual Shinji]

MTV Generation, '82.

Hey, a local boy.

 

[justnotcricket]

Genreation Y it seems - I would agree that we're moderately dependent on digital technology, but I can still clearly remember a time without the internet, i.e. my formative years, so I can't be that dependent, can I? =P Meh, i can still read an analogue clock... =D

 

[Rigs83]

Guess I am a Gen Y. Don't really care.

 

[Sigel]

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.

 

[G-Mang]

I wonder if any of the Gen Z'ers can relate to any of my firsts (first half were family's, too--not mine)...
8yo - Game Console (Game Boy)
12yo - PC with Graphical Interface
12yo - Internet Connection
13yo - DVD Player
13yo - P2P Software
15yo - Portable Music Player (CD)
17yo - Portable MP3 Player
18yo - Cell Phone
18yo - Social Networking Site Registration (facebook)

Some Gen-Z things I will never do...
* Start "texting" as its own activity
* Microblog
* Start an online journal
* Use facebook apps
* Play video games with parents and expect any sort of gameplay depth

Definitely Gen-Y.

 

[Trivun]

Born in 1990, so I'm just about Generation Y. Which suits me just fine, since I admit I am a bit of a techno-geek (hell, I do Maths at university, for gods' sakes!).

 

[electric_warrior]

1991, i suppose that's y. but i should have been born in 1948 because i'm a proper 60's addict; i would give anything to have been at woodstock, and to have seen the moonlanding, to have been in beatlemania and protested against vietnam and to have been there at that time. i love 60's music in particular, in fact i'm listening to the zombies right now (they did time of the season).
i feel betrayed by the generation i was born in; where cascada tops the charts ahead of a recently dead michael jackson and la roux is considered great music. where stupidity is put on a pedestal and worshipped by the fucking masses of big brother watching, wkd drinking fuckwits who spend more time straightening their hair than thinking about the world. we are possibly the most complacent, spoilt generation in the history of mankind and i wish quite dearly that i was born earlier, i really do.