What US generation do you fall in?

I'm a Millennial, I'm 29.

I'm kinda half and half on the personality, most of the Millennial aspects of me come from shared pop cultural experiences of my generation, I can grasp my generation's sense of humor for example, but I've always also felt a sense of kinship with the attitudes of Generation X, I'm not at all down with the average Millennial's politics.

I truly feel like I should have been born a few years earlier than I was.
 
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V0dka said:
They have a seperate subcategory for that, the Xennials/Oregon Trail Generation. You grew up with cassette tapes and analog TV, and when you were an adult it was DVDs and Digital TV. You got to experience rotary pulse dial phones and 3G mobiles.
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I think early 1980s kids having clear memories of rotary dial phones is pushing it. I'm mid-1970s and we already had touch tone in our house by the late 1970s. We moved to another house in 1981 whose prior owners left a rotary dial phone which we used as a secondary basement phone, but our primary home phone has always been a touch tone pretty much as far as I can remember.

I am young enough to have played Oregon Trail in late elementary school, on state-of-the-art Apple IIe "Platinum" computers.
 
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sasazuka said:
I think early 1980s kids having clear memories of rotary dial phones is pushing it. I'm mid-1970s and we already had touch tone in our house by the late 1970s. We moved to another house in 1981 whose prior owners left a touch tone phone which we used as a secondary basement phone, but our primary home phone has always been a touch tone pretty much as far as I can remember.

I am young enough to have played Oregon Trail in late elementary school, on state-of-the-art Apple IIe "Platinum" computers.
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Touch tones? You rich bastard.
 
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sasazuka said:
I think early 1980s kids having clear memories of rotary dial phones is pushing it. I'm mid-1970s and we already had touch tone in our house by the late 1970s. We moved to another house in 1981 whose prior owners left a touch tone phone which we used as a secondary basement phone, but our primary home phone has always been a touch tone pretty much as far as I can remember.

I am young enough to have played Oregon Trail in late elementary school, on state-of-the-art Apple IIe "Platinum" computers.
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It really depends on the kids. I was born in Eastern Europe in the late 80's and had both a rotary phone and a bootleg Nintendo well into the 90's. That's actually how I got so into 80's pop culture. All the western 80's action films and cartoons were no longer censored and were much cheaper to license than the new stuff coming out so I ended up watching stuff like Voltron and Nightmare on Elm Street as fresh, new content in the 90s.
 
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V0dka said:
They have a seperate subcategory for that, the Xennials/Oregon Trail Generation. You grew up with cassette tapes and analog TV, and when you were an adult it was DVDs and Digital TV. You got to experience rotary pulse dial phones and 3G mobiles.
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That's kinda of how I feel. We were the LAST for those older devices as children.

V0dka said:
Touch tones? You rich bastard.
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He would be, my family didn't get those phones until the late 80's. I was dialing a real phone back then!

Shaved Kiwis said:
It really depends on the kids. I was born in Eastern Europe in the late 80's and had both a rotary phone and a bootleg Nintendo well into the 90's. That's actually how I got so into 80's pop culture. All the western 80's action films and cartoons were no longer censored and were much cheaper to license than the new stuff coming out so I ended up watching stuff like Voltron and Nightmare on Elm Street as fresh, new content in the 90s.
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Given the circumstances, you guys did have to play catch-up after the 80's.
 
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I'm basically a first-production-run Millennial. Given that I both despise the bulk of Millennials and yet completely understand why they're upset about all the shit sandwiches they've been served, I'm not sure I really fit in with them or that they match my personality. My personality might be more of a messy hybrid of a bit of Gen X mixed with some Millennial. I dunno.
 
Like many of the folks in this thread, I'm either at the tail end of millennials or the very start of the zoomers. Not sure where '97 falls, seems like nobody can quite agree on where these things start and end (probably because they're arbitrary to begin with lol)
 
People say I'm in the Millenial Generation.
I detest it.
Personally, I separate the Millenial Generation as the ones who were born in the year 2000 or after.
I know it's wrong but I don't like being lumped into the same category as a generation of spoiled tards who give smart phones to their children who are five years old (a pet peeve of mine).

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Cohorts are bullshit.
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The first time I heard that term outside describing a Roman military unit was two years ago.
I thought it was dumb. I prefer using "colleague," if anything.
 
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I was born in 1999 and my 20th birthday's coming up in a few days. Despite being a zoomer, I barely share anything in common with other zooners, due to my family moving countries halfway through my childhood. However I don't share anything in common with zoomers here either, since I've no interest in befriending them. I abhor western zoomers' cultural Marxism, social media habits, most of everything they consider "quality content" and their attitudes towards life. I tend to be far more fatalistic, and prefer to keep to myself most of the time. In those regards, I'm more of a millennial, but in others, I doubt I fit in any generation.
 
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On all levels except physical, I am a boomer.
 
I am a zoomer, but I have a hard time relating to most of my peers as well as millennials. Most of the people I genuinely enjoy hanging out with belong to Generation X.
sasazuka said:
I think early 1980s kids having clear memories of rotary dial phones is pushing it. I'm mid-1970s and we already had touch tone in our house by the late 1970s. We moved to another house in 1981 whose prior owners left a touch tone phone which we used as a secondary basement phone, but our primary home phone has always been a touch tone pretty much as far as I can remember.

I am young enough to have played Oregon Trail in late elementary school, on state-of-the-art Apple IIe "Platinum" computers.
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As another user stated, it really depends on where you grew up. Even in some parts of 1st world Europe, rotary dial phones were still common until the late 80s/early 90s (at least that was the case for the respective countries of my parents)
 
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