Everyone is getting hung up on what version of Oregon trail you played or not, but that is besides the point. The point is if you are a late 70's baby or an early 80s baby you have never felt attached to x or millennial and that's because a major cultural shift happened while we came of age, the effects of which are still materializing. But we know both a pre Internet existence and a post Internet one.
After feeling generationally lost for 35 years, just let me have my microgeneration aha moment!!!
'79 kid here. We took typing in middle school on a keyboard. If we got our work done early in social studies we got to play Oregon Trail or Carmen San Diego. I didn't have a computer at home but used computers a lot in school. Didn't have my own email address until Freshman year of college. I took a programming class in HS and I remember making text based games, my partner and I made it so now matter what choices you did you always died. And I had a lot of fun with Napster in college.
Napster! I haven't heard anyone mention that in ages
True story: To this day, I have an irrational hatred of Metallica because of their part in the downfall of Napster. Whenever Enter Sandman comes on the radio, the station is immediately changed. I still have several thousand songs on my computer that were originally downloaded via Napster.
Unforgiven was playing on the radio when I got in the car to go to my doctor's appointment today (end of the flashback lunch hour) and I started thinking about Lars and his testimony regarding Napster.
It's like being 16 when the car was invented. Lol.
In the end though none of this will matter much as we ALL, no matter what year you were born but are alive today, will be seen as the generation of humans that destroyed the planet and let humanity die off.
Oregon Trail? Snap chat? Tinder? No one 200 years from now will give a shit which technological social cue that makes someone born in 1985 or 2015. We will all just be the people that worried about this shit instead of doing something about the impending doom.
It's like being 16 when the car was invented. Lol.
In the end though none of this will matter much as we ALL, no matter what year you were born but are alive today, will be seen as the generation of humans that destroyed the planet and let humanity die off.
Oregon Trail? Snap chat? Tinder? No one 200 years from now will give a shit which technological social cue that makes someone born in 1985 or 2015. We will all just be the people that worried about this shit instead of doing something about the impending doom.
Whomp whomp.
I thought that credit goes to the Boomers. (devil)
In all seriousness though, the backsliding on environmental policies has happened while the majority of those in power are boomers.
It's like being 16 when the car was invented. Lol.
In the end though none of this will matter much as we ALL, no matter what year you were born but are alive today, will be seen as the generation of humans that destroyed the planet and let humanity die off.
Oregon Trail? Snap chat? Tinder? No one 200 years from now will give a shit which technological social cue that makes someone born in 1985 or 2015. We will all just be the people that worried about this shit instead of doing something about the impending doom.
Whomp whomp.
I thought that credit goes to the Boomers. (devil)
In all seriousness though, the backsliding on environmental policies has happened while the majority of those in power are boomers.
300 years from now no one will care how we defined oursleves. Lol.
I was born in '86 and I relate to this. I don't feel like a Millennial at all - I don't use Twitter, I don't have a smart phone, and I didn't get a cell phone until 2009. I identify more with my sister, who was born in 1980. We recorded Top 40 Songs with our cassette player every week and thought Super Nintendo was the coolest thing ever. My parents got a home computer in 1998, when my sister started college. Both my sister (who lived at home for her first two years) and I loved chatrooms. I remember her using ICQ, but I was partial to AIM once I got to high school. None of my friends in high school had a cell phone, and my parents had dial-up Internet until 2005. When my parents got an answering machine, it was a big deal! They still had a rotary phone until I was about 11, and I remember it fondly. I remember (and used!) Lycos, AltaVista, and Netscape.
Anyway, I always feel uncomfortable when I'm referred to as a "Millennial" because I really don't feel it.
Post by hopecounts on Apr 27, 2015 18:04:51 GMT -5
fall of 81 here and this is so true. My experience is so different from both my older brothers (5 and 8 yrs older) and solidly Gen X and my cousin who is 6 years younger and absolutely a millennial.
I was born in '86 and I relate to this. I don't feel like a Millennial at all - I don't use Twitter, I don't have a smart phone, and I didn't get a cell phone until 2009. I identify more with my sister, who was born in 1980. We recorded Top 40 Songs with our cassette player every week and thought Super Nintendo was the coolest thing ever. My parents got a home computer in 1998, when my sister started college. Both my sister (who lived at home for her first two years) and I loved chatrooms. I remember her using ICQ, but I was partial to AIM once I got to high school. None of my friends in high school had a cell phone, and my parents had dial-up Internet until 2005. When my parents got an answering machine, it was a big deal! They still had a rotary phone until I was about 11, and I remember it fondly. I remember (and used!) Lycos, AltaVista, and Netscape.
Anyway, I always feel uncomfortable when I'm referred to as a "Millennial" because I really don't feel it.
I was born in '86 and I relate to this. I don't feel like a Millennial at all - I don't use Twitter, I don't have a smart phone, and I didn't get a cell phone until 2009. I identify more with my sister, who was born in 1980. We recorded Top 40 Songs with our cassette player every week and thought Super Nintendo was the coolest thing ever. My parents got a home computer in 1998, when my sister started college. Both my sister (who lived at home for her first two years) and I loved chatrooms. I remember her using ICQ, but I was partial to AIM once I got to high school. None of my friends in high school had a cell phone, and my parents had dial-up Internet until 2005. When my parents got an answering machine, it was a big deal! They still had a rotary phone until I was about 11, and I remember it fondly. I remember (and used!) Lycos, AltaVista, and Netscape.
Anyway, I always feel uncomfortable when I'm referred to as a "Millennial" because I really don't feel it.
You are totally a millennial.
I know, it makes me sad though. I'm turning 29 this year and feel odd being lumped together with kids born in 2000.
Did I tell the story where I totally forgot how to use film?
I bought a Lomo cam about 2 years ago and I kept exposing the film to light after using it, and couldn't figure out what the hell was wrong with my camera. It took me 3 ROLLS to figure that out!
Well that's still true of kids born today, lol. There are still some who don't have internet at home. Period.
We are talking generalities.
But even with generalities. The first year the US Census bureau even tallied internet use at home was 1997 according to this publication: www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-569.pdf. So, those born before 1979 very very likely wouldn't have had it until they went to college.
ETA-and it was only 18% in 1997.
By 2001, >50% of households had internet at home, so people born in 1983 and later likely would have had some internet access at home. It's a huge difference across those 4 years.
Wow those figures are astonishing to me I was born in 1980 and we had a home computer in the early 1990s. I had a friend give me her old 2400 bps modem and then walla I could telnet into talkers and muds in 1995. I also had that 1992 version of Oregon trail on my home computer. I remember we got a new computer with windows 95 for Christmas 1995.
And I made a geocities fan webpage for Ben Affleck after he was in Chasing Amy and before good will hunting came out.
Class of 2000-born in 1981. We had a Smith Corona word processor whenI I was in high school. I actually accidentally clicked on whitehouse . Com. I remember being in a special group in elementary school and participating in the first chat room- 6th grade and our teacher was like "you can communicate with everyone in this room, but you don't have to say a word. Mind.blown!
Oh, and we didn't purchase our first computer until I went to college. 900 bucks for the darn e-machine! Oh, and I remember Tandy machines. Loved Oregon Trail!
Born in 82 here. We were poor and had to go to the library to get on chat rooms. MySpace caused a lot of drama in my sorority my Junior year of college but we used our pages so differently than social media is used today. My group of friends had one techie who updated all of our MySpace pages because we couldn't be bothered to do it. I grew up with computer class in school and did some research with great assistance from the librarian, on the Internet in HS.
True story: To this day, I have an irrational hatred of Metallica because of their part in the downfall of Napster. Whenever Enter Sandman comes on the radio, the station is immediately changed. I still have several thousand songs on my computer that were originally downloaded via Napster.
Unforgiven was playing on the radio when I got in the car to go to my doctor's appointment today (end of the flashback lunch hour) and I started thinking about Lars and his testimony regarding Napster.
But yes, this article is so spot on.
When Tidal launched initially, my first thought was, "welp, guess Jay Z didn't see or doesn't remember what happened to Lars Ulrich."
Lars had a point about people pirating music but crying about how much money you're missing when you have the scratch to fill up your pool every night with liquor takes some balls.
Unforgiven was playing on the radio when I got in the car to go to my doctor's appointment today (end of the flashback lunch hour) and I started thinking about Lars and his testimony regarding Napster.
But yes, this article is so spot on.
When Tidal launched initially, my first thought was, "welp, guess Jay Z didn't see or doesn't remember what happened to Lars Ulrich."
Lars had a point about people pirating music but crying about how much money you're missing when you have the scratch to fill up your pool every night with liquor takes some balls.
Right? He'll forever get the hairy eyeball from me for that one. Especially because artists should (have) focus(ed) their ire on the industry that writes contracts that put(s) them at a disadvantage.
Okay. You want to know how GenX I am and "alienated" from technology? I JUST NOW saw an anti-smoking PSA. Premise: girls looking at pics of men on a phone. This one is hot, but he's holding a cig, so NO. Jingle: "Swipe to the left. Lalalala Swipe to the left." Hashtag: #swipetotheleft. The ONLY reason I undestand this ad is because fucking Kelly and Michael did a bit on Tinder last week. And we all know only the olds watch Kelly and Michael from 9-10 am on a week day. Plus, how mainstream does something have to be before it becomes a PSA? Or before Kelly and Michael talk about it?
1980 here. I remember being a secretary in 1997. it was my first office job. My boss assigned a task that required using the Internet and I vividly remember thinking "oh shit. What do I do? I don't know what I'm doing. Oh wait. LYCOS. I can use lycos. Phew!" Lol.
In 1998 I plagiarized a graduation speech I found online. I thought I was so effing brilliant for using the Internet to find an example speech before trying to write it all from scratch myself. Those were the days...
1982 here. This is so me. And my mom was a teacher, so during the summer I got to borrow an Apple IIe for a few months and play games on it! Man, it was so old skool.
1982 signing in. My BFF got a computer and Internet when we were in eighth grade and NO ONE else had them then. Every Friday night I'd sleep over and we'd spend the whole time in chat rooms and IMing people.
We had no clue what we were doing so we gave out way too much information. I realized this when one night at dinner my dad picked up the ringing phone, looked extremely perplexed and told me a boy named CyberWolf wanted to speak with me.
My brothers are six and 10 years younger. Sometimes it seems like the youngest one and I were born in completely different generations.