Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
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Going by that list, MTV Generation for me (born 1980)
was quite interesting watching these new technologies evolve.
The first computer we got was an amstrad 286 (<3 lemmings), first console we got was a megadrive. At school i started off with tape-based walkmans, eventually transferring to CD player types when they became reasonable.
I didn't get my first mobile phone untill i left for university at 18, which is also the time i got my first own PC (and first home internet connection!), thats what got me interested in computing
I do somewhat wish i was born a few years later so i could have got interested in computing sooner, as i'd have probably chosen to follow that at school then
After Uni, i also remember owning this phone [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_SL45], the first model to include an MP3 player and downloadable java games
was quite interesting watching these new technologies evolve.
The first computer we got was an amstrad 286 (<3 lemmings), first console we got was a megadrive. At school i started off with tape-based walkmans, eventually transferring to CD player types when they became reasonable.
I didn't get my first mobile phone untill i left for university at 18, which is also the time i got my first own PC (and first home internet connection!), thats what got me interested in computing
I do somewhat wish i was born a few years later so i could have got interested in computing sooner, as i'd have probably chosen to follow that at school then
After Uni, i also remember owning this phone [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_SL45], the first model to include an MP3 player and downloadable java games
Ok so to clarify. If generations are considered to last for 30 years which is the time they have the greatest impact on the world:
Greatest Generation was 1930s to 1950s
Baby Boomers was 1960s to 1980s
Generation "X"ers is 1990s to 2020s
As for my opinion on my own generation which by the list above would be Generation X...I weep for humanity.
Greatest Generation was 1930s to 1950s
Baby Boomers was 1960s to 1980s
Generation "X"ers is 1990s to 2020s
As for my opinion on my own generation which by the list above would be Generation X...I weep for humanity.
no a generation is not 30 years. it greatly depend on cultural experience, and now that technology devellop so fast, a generation is less than 10 years because a kid born in 1985 will have an experience very different of the owrld than i kid born in 1995...Seekster said:
i'm a generation X myself. born in the 70's (ok, 1979, but still in the 70's)
we saw the dawn of personal computing and home video games, we saw the golden age of the arcades and every generation of home entertainement system from atari to PS3. We experienced BBS and the start of internet, when we used to surf the web with netscape with a 33k phone line to get to our hotmail mails that wasnt owned by microsoft and browse text website because picture were too long to download...
Gen -y 1983. I remember when computers were not that great, vcr's were a new invention, and only extremely rich people had cell phones.
Hehe i remember the BBS, i used to run one (with 3 phone lines coming in the house!) on my 386dx33 16mb ram (it was a BEAST!)cathou said:
Good times, good times...
Renegade BBS software still exists!
http://www.renegadebbs.net/I remember the first steps for the "available-to-everyone" internet, compuserve!
Edit : oh, and i'm generation X in case it wasn't obvious
I was born in 1991, so I could technically be in Gen Y or Z. Personality-wise, I'm in Gen Y. I'm generally more pragmatic than my peers, and I'm still slightly removed from the "share every minute detail of your life" attitude of social networking sites and whatnot.
Edit: grew up with VCRs, and didn't have a game system until Game Boy Color, when I was about 8 or 9.
Edit: grew up with VCRs, and didn't have a game system until Game Boy Color, when I was about 8 or 9.
1980. Generation X.
I remember the fall of the Berlin Wall. I remember seeing NES displays in stores. I used to have a walkman that ran casette tapes.
Yes, we Gen X'ers are gnarly old bastards.
I remember the fall of the Berlin Wall. I remember seeing NES displays in stores. I used to have a walkman that ran casette tapes.
Yes, we Gen X'ers are gnarly old bastards.
1969 - Gen X all the way, though a lot of the stereotypes of Gen X'ers are based on the assumption that the Gen Xer comes from a middle-class family, which I didn't.
Fun Fact: I own the book Generation X, which is where the term "Generation X" originated, and which is responsible for the rest of you being Y's and Z's. It's a pretty good book, groundbreaking it its day, a bit dated now. Written in 1991. Wow. That long ago? Wow.
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.
Fun Fact: I own the book Generation X, which is where the term "Generation X" originated, and which is responsible for the rest of you being Y's and Z's. It's a pretty good book, groundbreaking it its day, a bit dated now. Written in 1991. Wow. That long ago? Wow.
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.
