What Generation are You From and What Issues Defined Your Generation?

[MacLeod]

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Though in some respects the digital age has brought us closer together. Looking at this board for example it brings together people from around the world of different ages.

As for e-mails isn't that just the modern version of a typed letter? We've been typing letters for longer than computers have been around. The issue with a hand written letter is how good is your handwritting? Some peoples are better than others and that's always been the case hasn't it?

As for texts vs voice call perhaps there is a difference in the ages to those that grew up with the tech as it was coming in and for those for who it always existed. A text can have it's place just as a voice call cna.

 

[sojourner]

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I remember using the 8 inch floppy disk in elementary school and Zip Drives in high school. I remember pagers in college.

Are you sure that was an 8 inch floppy? By 1983 (the earliest you could have been in elementary school) 5 1/4" drives were the norm. What kind of computer was it? Not an Apple for sure.

 

[Melakon]

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Baby boomer, born 1951, though we don't get a kewl identifier like Gen W's. What issues defined the generation? Viet Nam, sex 'n drugs 'n rock 'n roll, Watergate. I started out firmly conservative God-fearing Republican, but began shifting to liberal agnostic Democrat later in my 20's.

 

[sojourner]

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Opportunity bless my soul!!

sex 'n drugs 'n rock 'n roll

 

[propita]

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Nah, you're Generation Jones. Too old for Gen X but nothing in common with "real" Boomers. About 1958-1965.

Seriously, being born in 1963, what did I have in common with someone born in the late 1940s? They're graduating--or joining the workforce--and I'm being potty trained. Technically Generation Jones could be the children of the early Boomers. If someone was too young to remember JFK as President, how could they be a Boomer? The major early memory for Generation Jones would be the moon landing, maybe RFK's death for the older ones, maybe Nixon's resignation for the youngest.

 

[scotpens]

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To answer the original question... Baby Boomer, born 1950.

Holy shit. You're one of the few people here who's older than I am!

 

[rhubarbodendron]

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was 1950/51 the baby boom after the big blackout? We learned about that one at school as an example of how technology (or lack of) influences social interaction.

In Germany we had a baby boom in 1964/65 in spite of the power grids working perfectly (we use a very different system that makes farspread blackouts practically impossible). It's suspected that it was a consequence of the sexual liberation movement. The pill was introduced around 66/67 and birthrates went down considerably.

LOL - I just tried feeding a translation software with our expression for baby boomers: "geburtenstarke Jahrgänge" and it came up with "birthstrong vintages" ROTF!

 

[RJDiogenes]

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^^ In this context, the Baby Boom refers to the spike in birth rates following WWII.

If someone was too young to remember JFK as President, how could they be a Boomer? The major early memory for Generation Jones would be the moon landing, maybe RFK's death for the older ones, maybe Nixon's resignation for the youngest.

I don't exactly remember JFK, since I was about two years old when he died, but I do remember his life and death being everywhere throughout my early childhood. School, TV, comic books, adult conversations. He was part of the molecular structure of the 60s.

 

[RandyS]

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Nah, you're Generation Jones. Too old for Gen X but nothing in common with "real" Boomers. About 1958-1965.

Seriously, being born in 1963, what did I have in common with someone born in the late 1940s? They're graduating--or joining the workforce--and I'm being potty trained. Technically Generation Jones could be the children of the early Boomers. If someone was too young to remember JFK as President, how could they be a Boomer? The major early memory for Generation Jones would be the moon landing, maybe RFK's death for the older ones, maybe Nixon's resignation for the youngest.

I'm Generation X (I guess), and I remember Nixon's resignation. I was only four when it happened, but remember clearly my mom and I watching it on the news. I asked her what it meant, and she told me, "It means Mr. Ford lives to the Big House now".

 

[bbjeg]

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I remember using the 8 inch floppy disk in elementary school and Zip Drives in high school. I remember pagers in college.

Are you sure that was an 8 inch floppy? By 1983 (the earliest you could have been in elementary school) 5 1/4" drives were the norm. What kind of computer was it? Not an Apple for sure.

Like I said, my elementary school had the 8 inch floppys too and I was born in '84. They must have been cheap and didn't upgrade.

 

[Melakon]

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Nah, you're Generation Jones. Too old for Gen X but nothing in common with "real" Boomers. About 1958-1965.

With a birthyear of 1951, I can't be Generation Jones (which I've never heard of before, but it wasn't coined until 2007), as even the coiner of the term states it starts with 1954. All I know is, Harry Truman was president when I was born. In 1958, I was 7 and we had moved to what I considered the boondocks and I became an ignorant hick instead of a suburbanite.

Ooooh, and Tora Ziyal has me beat by a few months. So now there two on the board I know of older than me. All my siblings were born in the 1930s.

 

[RoJoHen]

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I remember using the 8 inch floppy disk in elementary school and Zip Drives in high school. I remember pagers in college.

Are you sure that was an 8 inch floppy? By 1983 (the earliest you could have been in elementary school) 5 1/4" drives were the norm. What kind of computer was it? Not an Apple for sure.

Like I said, my elementary school had the 8 inch floppys too and I was born in '84. They must have been cheap and didn't upgrade.

Mine as well, and I was born in '85. 8" floppies and green computer screens. Those were the days.

 

[sojourner]

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Are you sure that was an 8 inch floppy? By 1983 (the earliest you could have been in elementary school) 5 1/4" drives were the norm. What kind of computer was it? Not an Apple for sure.

Like I said, my elementary school had the 8 inch floppys too and I was born in '84. They must have been cheap and didn't upgrade.

Mine as well, and I was born in '85. 8" floppies and green computer screens. Those were the days.

I'm curious as to what kind of computers you had then?

 

[RoJoHen]

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Like I said, my elementary school had the 8 inch floppys too and I was born in '84. They must have been cheap and didn't upgrade.

Mine as well, and I was born in '85. 8" floppies and green computer screens. Those were the days.

I'm curious as to what kind of computers you had then?

I honestly couldn't tell you, it was so long ago. I just know that the technology changed very rapidly. 8" floppies to 5" floppes to hard floppies to those super thick Zip disks to "the H: drive" to USB flash drives (which cost about $100 for like 8MB).

And now I don't use any of that shit because if I really need something I just email it to myself.

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

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I'm a Baby Boomer.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

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I'm curious as to what kind of computers you had then?

My first one was a Commodore PET 2001. That one was the first PC in IT history =). Apple II and Tandy TRS-80 came on the market a few days later.

Discs were not yet invented. It worked with audio cassette tapes. RAM was 8 kb (no typo) for the European models, in the US there were several versions: 4, 8, 16 and 32 kb. 1 kb respectively was used for the operating system (BASIC). It took more than 2 minutes to boot.
CPU was a MOS Technology 6502 (8 bit, 1 MHz)

The internet nor viruses had been invented yet. No advertizings or pop-ups had been programmed yet. Just plain fun and really cool games!

Ah, those were the days!

The first digital watches and the first pocket calculators were invented when I was in highschool, and from there on it all went downhill.