Baby boomer, Gen X, etc: what are the names and cutoff years?

[weirdpeirce]

Asking people sounds exhausting, but sure, you put in enough work you could find some stuff.

This is why our generation is the worst.

[abraham]

I call bullshit. I know more music than you (could be wrong, but doubtful) and it all came from interest, asking somebody, not from tech of any sort.

In a bar, in Ireland, in 1990, I asked a guy what song this is:



I'm glad I did.

This might be true. But there was definitely a time where people were figuring out the internet and tastes weren't as well defined. Also at 12 I wasn't as jaded, at some point in between I realized I'll never listen to all the music that comes out, even all the music worth listening to.

[riser4]

Ah jeez, not this shit again.

[riser4]

[BmillsSkier]

I bet she felt pretty smart about herself in that moment. A real gotcha.

[Ted Striker]

It's about the zeitgeist, not about random historical shit. Kids who grew up in the 60's are different from kids who grew up in the 70's, who are different from 80's kids, etc. And it's not because of some arbitrary starting date.

I agree. Culturally and economically, you're not a boomer if you were born post peak. That's literally the thesis of Coupland's book. Gen X meant standing in the world's shadow. He never meant to name a demographic, he meant to un-name it. Like generic soup.

Clique Maintenance: The need of one generation to see the generation following it as deficient so as to bolster its own collective ego: Kids today do nothing. They’re so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.

[Marshall Tucker]

Boomer = DoB 12/31/1964 and before. period. Like SFB or a few others, I'm solidly in the shoulder area and am not really a boomer or an X. and to be truthful i really don't give a shit.

[skaredshtles]

Boomer = DoB 12/31/1064 and before. period.

Damn. Boomers be WAY older than I was thinking...

[Marshall Tucker]

^STFU. before I beat this sherdshitlesss outta ya with my cane.

[AK47bp]

Boomer = DoB 12/31/1964 and before. period. Like SFB or a few others, I'm solidly in the shoulder area and am not really a boomer or an X. and to be truthful i really don't give a shit.

That’s the X’er spirit!


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[Ted Striker]

putting the X in apathy.

[Meadow Skipper]

^STFU. before I beat this sherdshitlesss outta ya with my cane.

OK boomer.

[Marshall Tucker]

^ well played. Boomer.

[ExPowderSnob]

I can’t seem to post Instagram links on AltaVista.
What am I doing wrong?
Should I try Netscape?

ALtavista.. lol.... I bet you still have an AOL email, and spent way too much time in chat rooms...

[Brownski]

My employer recently had the whole company take a long supposedly anonymous online survey to gauge company morale and the first question was which generational group we were in. Here’s how they broke it out:
before 1945 Traditionalist
46-64 Boomer
65-80 Gen X
81-95 Millennial
96-03 Gen Z

[weirdpeirce]

before 1945 Traditionalist
46-64 Boomer
65-80 Gen X
81-95 Millennial
96-03 Gen Z

I think these are the commonly accepted #s.

I think it also has a lot to do with where you grew up if you were born close to one of the cutoff dates.
More urban areas were probably quicker to pick up on the new trends of that generation.

In 1997 my 5th grade class still used Commodore 64s for computer lab, and most students already had farm jobs.
Despite being born in 87, I don't really identify with millenials at all, because that culture wasn't really available to me until I went to college.

[iceman]

I think it also has a lot to do with where you grew up if you were born close to one of the cutoff dates.
More urban areas were probably quicker to pick up on the new trends of that generation.

THat's interesting, I hadn't thought about that but it makes some sense. The accepted definition of Boomer is too long, anybody born in the 60's doesn't have a lot in common with someone born in 1946 or even 1956.

[Woodsy]

THat's interesting, I hadn't thought about that but it makes some sense. The accepted definition of Boomer is too long, anybody born in the 60's doesn't have a lot in common with someone born in 1946 or even 1956.

Ok boomer

[AK47bp]

I think these are the commonly accepted #s.

I think it also has a lot to do with where you grew up if you were born close to one of the cutoff dates.
More urban areas were probably quicker to pick up on the new trends of that generation.

In 1997 my 5th grade class still used Commodore 64s for computer lab, and most students already had farm jobs.
Despite being born in 87, I don't really identify with millenials at all, because that culture wasn't really available to me until I went to college.

Okay snowflake


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[BCMtnHound]

I think these are the commonly accepted #s.

I think it also has a lot to do with where you grew up if you were born close to one of the cutoff dates.
More urban areas were probably quicker to pick up on the new trends of that generation.

In 1997 my 5th grade class still used Commodore 64s for computer lab, and most students already had farm jobs.
Despite being born in 87, I don't really identify with millenials at all, because that culture wasn't really available to me until I went to college.

Wow! What area of the (dark) continent did you grow up? We had apple IIe in the class in 85, and an amiga 1000(?) computer lab by '87. And this was in bumfuck kootenays (it was real depressed there following the late 70's/early 80's economic crashes. Amazing those 64's lasted so many years!

[Mr. Mike]

Wow! What area of the (dark) continent did you grow up? We had apple IIe in the class in 85, and an amiga 1000(?) computer lab by '87. And this was in bumfuck kootenays (it was real depressed there following the late 70's/early 80's economic crashes. Amazing those 64's lasted so many years!

He didn't say they actually worked. They were repurposing them as ashtrays.

[wooley12]

[Flounder]

I'm solidly in the shoulder area and am not really a boomer or an X. and to be truthful i really don't give a shit.

I think Richard Hell said it best.

https://youtu.be/JsK8fHPjav0

[fastfred]

if someone is bitching about everyone else, hates on welfare but can't wait for medicare and social security because they earned it, points out everyone else's short commings, acts like an ass hole
they must be a boomer

[BmillsSkier]

“Ok Boomer” has jumped the shark in record time.

Well done kids.