Meme Thread... no politics

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Appleseed said:

In reply to No Time :

I'm 44 for a couple more days and I am pretty sure I qualify as a millennial. I got my first computer when I was five (if a Timex Sinclair counts as a computer) and got my first e-mail address when I was nine...

I got my first email address when I was 18, although I'm not too much older than you (50). I guess I was slacking, although we did have a TI99-4A with the cassette storage accessory.

Appleseed:

Honestly, I couldn't tell you what years apply to generations without googling it. Having a 19yo living at home reminds me that I wasn't much different that him at his age, just the technology was different  

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Age is like driving.  Anyone ahead of you is a slow moving idiot, and anyone coming up behind you is a reckless imbecile.

In reply to Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) :

Yeah. You should cook them first.

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

I'm 44 for a couple more days and I am pretty sure I qualify as a millennial. I got my first computer when I was five (if a Timex Sinclair counts as a computer) and got my first e-mail address when I was nine...

I'm really close in age to you. I've seen analysis that we're in a very narrow micro-generation range referred to as 'Xennial' or the 'Oregon Trail Generation'. Being on the cusp of Gen X and Millennial, we share a lot of traits of both, but don't really fit into either.

We grew up with both the analog and digital being normal for us.

Beer Baron said:

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

I'm 44 for a couple more days and I am pretty sure I qualify as a millennial. I got my first computer when I was five (if a Timex Sinclair counts as a computer) and got my first e-mail address when I was nine...

I'm really close in age to you. I've seen analysis that we're in a very narrow micro-generation range referred to as 'Xennial' or the 'Oregon Trail Generation'. Being on the cusp of Gen X and Millennial, we share a lot of traits of both, but don't really fit into either.

 Names/traits for generations are dumb.

That said, the "Millennial" generation spans a giant swath of technical changes that had a huge impact on life. 

I'll just leave this here. 

No Time said:

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Appleseed said:

In reply to No Time :

I'm 44 for a couple more days and I am pretty sure I qualify as a millennial. I got my first computer when I was five (if a Timex Sinclair counts as a computer) and got my first e-mail address when I was nine...

I got my first email address when I was 18, although I'm not too much older than you (50). I guess I was slacking, although we did have a TI99-4A with the cassette storage accessory.

Appleseed:

Honestly, I couldn't tell you what years apply to generations without googling it. Having a 19yo living at home reminds me that I wasn't much different that him at his age, just the technology was different  

 

 

Officially, the generations go:

Boomer: 1945 to 1964

Gen X: 1965 to 1979

Millenials: 1980 to 1999

Gen Z: 2000 to present

Which means at 44, you are officially a GenX. Officially, I am a Millenial (born 1980), but I received the education of a GenX. 

But yeah, those definitions are pretty dumb, un-productive and arbitrary.

ProDarwin said:

Beer Baron said:

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

I'm 44 for a couple more days and I am pretty sure I qualify as a millennial. I got my first computer when I was five (if a Timex Sinclair counts as a computer) and got my first e-mail address when I was nine...

I'm really close in age to you. I've seen analysis that we're in a very narrow micro-generation range referred to as 'Xennial' or the 'Oregon Trail Generation'. Being on the cusp of Gen X and Millennial, we share a lot of traits of both, but don't really fit into either.

 Names/traits for generations are dumb.

That said, the "Millennial" generation spans a giant swath of technical changes that had a huge impact on life. 

You had floppy disks. We played cowboys and Indians with sticks. 

Now I'm sitting in front of 3 monitors cussing because I just closed the wrong berkeleying browser window. 

Toyman! said:

ProDarwin said:

That said, the "Millennial" generation spans a giant swath of technical changes that had a huge impact on life. 

You had floppy disks. We played cowboys and Indians with sticks. 

Indeed.  The point was that both the floppy disks and the iphone are in the millennial generation. 

We had cowboys and indians too, but I grew out of that phase before highschool 

In reply to ProDarwin :

Yeah, I guess by high school we were playing Dukes of Hazzard with cars instead. 

Edited to add meme. 

fanfoy said:

No Time said:

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Appleseed said:

In reply to No Time :

I'm 44 for a couple more days and I am pretty sure I qualify as a millennial. I got my first computer when I was five (if a Timex Sinclair counts as a computer) and got my first e-mail address when I was nine...

I got my first email address when I was 18, although I'm not too much older than you (50). I guess I was slacking, although we did have a TI99-4A with the cassette storage accessory.

Appleseed:

Honestly, I couldn't tell you what years apply to generations without googling it. Having a 19yo living at home reminds me that I wasn't much different that him at his age, just the technology was different  

 

 

Officially, the generations go:

Boomer: 1945 to 1964

Gen X: 1965 to 1979

Millenials: 1980 to 1999

Gen Z: 2000 to present

Which means at 44, you are officially a GenX. Officially, I am a Millenial (born 1980), but I received the education of a GenX. 

But yeah, those definitions are pretty dumb, un-productive and arbitrary.

I'm generation Y, as in "Why am I here?". 

It appears my E36 M3-stirring is complete.

Beer Baron said:

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

I'm 44 for a couple more days and I am pretty sure I qualify as a millennial. I got my first computer when I was five (if a Timex Sinclair counts as a computer) and got my first e-mail address when I was nine...

I'm really close in age to you. I've seen analysis that we're in a very narrow micro-generation range referred to as 'Xennial' or the 'Oregon Trail Generation'. Being on the cusp of Gen X and Millennial, we share a lot of traits of both, but don't really fit into either.

We grew up with both the analog and digital being normal for us.

Born in December '75. Most of my elementary school time was 100% analog. 4th to 6th grade we started using the Apple IIe to play this and learn basic computer skills that ceased to be relevant by 1994. Im glad to have a designation... Oregon trail generation!

And now for something that only 3 or 4 people here will get.