What US generation do you fall in?

There were still rotary phones in use in the US in the early 90s.

You could still use four digit dialing in places that didn't have 911 yet, in the states, which was still the case in a lot of rural places into the the 90s. We had CompuServe AND a functional rotary in the house at one point.
 
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Attitude and politics wise, I tend to relate more to Zoomers. Pop culture for me is a toss up between Millenials and Zoomers. My early childhood was in Mexico, so I haven’t heard about certain 90s trends from the United States until the 90s were long gone. ‘95 is a really hard year to categorize.
 
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Had to correct my story. I meant that, when we moved to a new house in 1981, the previous owners had left a rotary dial phone which we used as a secondary phone in the basement, but I screwed up and wrote "touch tone" instead of "rotary dial" because it was like 5 a.m.

I know rotary dial phones were still in use into the 1990s and possibly even into this century but even in the mid-1980s, as in the era with briefcase-sized cell phones as well as cordless phones and phones shaped like Garfield, rotary dials were a bit "backwards", and by the 1990s, they were anachronisms.
 
I was born in the late 90s and my parents' house still has a working rotary dial phone hanging on the wall in the kitchen. Is it really that weird? It stopped working for a while (you could get calls but not make them) when my parents switched to a phone company that wasn't legally required to provide legacy service, but when they got Verizon Fios the installer used to do phones so he hooked it back up. I've used it within the last couple weeks.
 
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Born in '81, according to Wikipedia I'm either the very last year of Gen X. or one of the very first Millennials. I'm not to keen on grouping myself with Millennials so I tend to go along with the Gen X. moniker. Apparently people born between '77 and '85 can also be called Xennials since we show traits of both generations.

Since we're on rotary phone talk we used to have this piss-yellow plastic rotary phone up until the early 90's. It had this really long coiled cord that would stretch at least 15 feet, my older siblings would stretch it out and take the phone into the bathroom to talk to their boyfriends and girlfriends. My parents would get mad and bang on the door 'cause we only had one bathroom in the house. I kind of miss that phone.
 
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Clown College said:
Born in '81, according to Wikipedia I'm either the very last year of Gen X. or one of the very first Millennials. I'm not to keen on grouping myself with Millennials so I tend to go along with the Gen X. moniker. Apparently people born between '77 and '85 can also be called Xennials since we show traits of both generations.

Since we're on rotary phone talk we used to have this piss-yellow plastic rotary phone up until the early 90's. It had this really long coiled cord that would stretch at least 15 feet, my older siblings would stretch it out and take the phone into the bathroom to talk to their boyfriends and girlfriends. My parents would get mad and bang on the door 'cause we only had one bathroom in the house. I kind of miss that phone.
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Heh, I grew up in a family that thought a phone in the bathroom was a good idea so we had one (my grandparents did too). That just seemed normal to me.
 
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i'm a zoomer, i think there are a lot of annoying kids in gen z but there's some pretty talented and interesting people that get overlooked.
 
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Early X, supposedly, but I did my own things and wasn't into pop culture stuff. Fuck if I know what they are supposedly like. Guess I woulda looked it up if anything about some arbitrary birthday thing mattered. Just decided, still don't care about that sorta shit.
 
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However I don't share anything in common with zoomers here either, since I've no interest in befriending them.
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As an addendum, by "zoomers here" I was referring to zoomers in the country I currently live in, not the ones on Kiwi Farms. You guys can befriend me if you like.
 
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