Poll to sample CP members by generation
 

Please respond accordingly:

• Silent Generation
  1928-45
  
• Baby Boomers
  1946-64
  
• Generation X
  1965-80
  
• Millennials/Generation Y
  1981-96
  
• Zoomers/Generation Z
  1997-2012

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Generation X...


in b4 pole...

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• Millennials/Generation Y

I'm one of the youngest boomers according to the popular definitions, but I prefer the Generation Jones construct. I have nothing in common with older boomers who came of age in the poodle-skirt 50s or the Hippie Era 60s.

One year older and I would be in the Silent Generation!:doh!:

Okay Boomer.


Actually I just missed Boomer by 1 year. Huge difference in born in '65 versus '80 for that so-called generation.

I am old enough to remember the moon shot.

So far, I'm the youngest poster on Chiefsplanet.

Zoomers/Generation Z

Gen x

Is this where we get our member sampled?

Big Bill’s time to shine

I'm not sure I identify with the term Elder Millennial, but I just barely fit into the common definition of Millenial. I feel like Oregon Trail Generation fits me most accurately.

This is actually a great idea! I say we do it like Buffalo Wild Wings each member selects a sauce to dip it in then we each do a sample taste at the end vote which one tastes the best

This. (Although it bears noting that you're older than me :D )

I've said before that there is a material difference between us that spent our late formative years in the wild wild west of the internet than those who spent their entire lives with social media.

Agreed. The poll should be Pre-Social Media and Post. That would be definitive.

Boomer here


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1981 according to the poll the 1st year of the Millennials

Part of the last of the boomers. I have never identified with that generation. By that definition I am in the same generation as my mom. I don't think so Tim.

Barely a Boomer, whom which I’ve never identified.

Now get off my lawn.

Gen X gonna give it to ya!!

Yep, the last generation that remembers and lived a life before the Internet. Experience with analog but took on and embraced digital.

Gen. X.

Gen X

Smack dab in the middle of millennial. Basically the prototypical millennial.

Yeah - I still feel like there's a small cutout from about 1975 through 1985 who grew up without computers and actually remember not having them.

If you're born in 86 or so, you had computers in school from Kindergarten forward. You were using the internet in elementary school.

They had a name attached to that period for a bit but it's largely been abandoned.

Gen X is lucky to be the last generation to reach adulthood without the internet and mobile phones.

I've never really seen Millenials listed as starting in '81. Typically feels like most references start it at '85.

Anyway, yeah, like DaFace said, im an old Millennial. Old enough to remember life without internet and cell phones.

I prefer pre internet millenial and post internet millenial, feel like there is a big difference in the two

I was born in 87, first computer lab i remember was in middle school that had internet access. I remember having one computer in our classroom that we played things like oregon trail and typing games on.

Yeah, the Oregon Trail generation. Same. We grew up on VHS and Goosbumps books and watched as we transitioned from the Sony Walkman to the Sony Discman.

We also went from the O.G Nintendo and this bad ass new technology, the Sega CD and the first Playstation.

Then it was giga-pets for the girls, and finally....the Nokia cell phone took over in our teen years....with those ****ing Nokia phone case and screen protector kiosks around every corner at the mall. Stupid egg shaped phone....and everyone had one. We pretty much rolled right on through pagers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#Western_world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millen...ge_definitions

Geriatric? Ouch. ROFL

So I guess I'm technically Millennial (81) but I'm an old soul and I identify much more strongly with the previous generation.

I knew that would cut deep. :evil:

On the topic of Oregon Trail: does anybody else recall having access to another MECC game at school, titled Freedom!? My school must have either not received or ignored the memo to destroy all copies at the time.

sorry, i do not identify with anyone born in the 90s

gfy

General rule is graduating class of 2000

Degeneration X, bitches.

My first memory of computers was when I was in elementary school and we would go to the computer lab. We had a bunch with the green monitors and one "color" one that had a purple screen. I only ever remember playing Oregon Trail on it. I was born in 1977, so I remember life with and without them.

My dad was born in 1929 but I consider him as part of the Greatest Generation. I don't like the way generations are being used to divide the people into subsets with animus toward each other. And while I wasn't "like" my dad and my uncles in so many ways I always respected them and as I've gotten older I find myself wishing I had been more like them. Hat tip to them!

Honestly, I think it's more reasonable to segregate by what president was in office when you were born. I was born in 1959, but I have little in common with people born in the late 40s/early 50s - completely different circumstances growing up.

My formative years were the late 60s/early 70s, so presumably, I'd be more influenced by the Summer of Love, the Vietnam War, etc., than the early Boomers.

BTW - I'm an Eisenhower baby.

This definitely sounds like a good subject for Rainman to investigate - a more equitable way to identify age groups.

Agreed. it makes no sense once you realize that whatever problem you have with a particular generation, you can blame on the generation that raised them, and the generation that raised them, and so on.

81 -- my first memory of computers is having a 286 with DOS that was essentially a glorified word processor at home. At school I'd say 2nd or 3rd grade (so 89/90) where we played Carmen San Diego. But that wasn't in my day to day classroom - that was in Bridges on Tuesdays; only about 8-10 of us in that class.

Day to day classroom use wasn't until middle school. My handwriting was bad enough that if I could type an assignment, I would - that was 4th or 5th grade with our little dot matrix printer at home (and tearing off the little strips on the side then making snakes out of them) and that was certainly out of the ordinary from my classmates. That would've been probably around 1992.

Though like you, we did have a couple 'computer lab' days per week with stuff like Oregon Trail or various reading/math games for an hour or two a couple times/wk.

But otherwise we were still using those transparencies and chalkboards for lessons. That seemed to have changed up quite a bit from 1990 through about 1994. My sister was born in '86 and remembers computer use being far more pervasive - at least in the Park Hill school district.

Fall of 1993 was middle school (I'm pretty sure) because we built our new place during the '93 floods and that's when I moved schools to start Middle School (do NOT do that to your kids; Middle Schoolers are evil enough when they know you; they're goddamn demons when they don't). So for me, daily computer use at school and ready internet access was a thing in the fall of '93.

93 Millennial, barely old enough to remember the twin towers falling on TV.

Sega CD - the best example of a good idea that was poorly executed you'll ever see.

I traded a pair of Roller Blades to a neighbor kid for one of those and a couple of games. I got took (and the roller blades were shit; bearings were shot).

It was like they came up with the idea and then just never bothered making games that were actually worth playing on it. Got it dumped off on some other kid for Joe Montana Football and NHL '93 and considered it a massive win.

I didn't realize we had so many old farts here.

I figured the people threatening to fight me were somewhat younger.

Oregon Trail generation kid here.

Stumbled across this place at the ripe and stupid age of 19. Still here more than 1/2 my life later.

Born in '67. My first experience with a computer was college, and we used a floppy disk to save everything.

Surprised how many old timers there are on here actually

Really? Im surprised how many Millenials there are.

I guess I am a boomer. But like Rainman I am on the very end, 1963, and don't identify with boomers at all.
Oh well.

Eh - chatboards are about our age range.

The old folk use the Facebooks, younger folks use Tik Tok.

Chatboards are a dying breed kept afloat by folks about 30-45 yrs old...

Gen X. I was born in '65, but because I hadn't yet turned two when the first Super Bowl was played in '67, I am always the same age as the Super Bowl number. Makes it easy to remember how old I am. :D

I am old enough to remember:

Party line phones with five digit numbers if calls were local, and Macon and Kirksville having the same area code as Kansas City.

A country doctor who actually made house calls.

The only TV being black and white because color was too expensive, that got a CBS channel, an NBC channel, and if the weather was right, an ABC channel.

As a preschool-aged kid, crawling from the backseat to the frontseat of my mom's '67 Impala while she drove 80 MPH on a winding country road while chainsmoking.

My mom thinking gas was expensive when it hit 50 cents a gallon.

The mortgage on a brand new house with three bedrooms, two baths, and a two car garage being less than my current utility bills.

Riding in the backs of pickups thinking nothing of it. Also, sitting behind the driver with my ass on the trunk of a two seat convertible MG thinking nothing of it.

Handheld communication devices being either walkie-talkies or something out of Star Trek.

Manual typewriters.

I could go on, but it's too depressing. And there is also still a part of me that thinks the year 2000 should be in the future, not nearly a quarter-century in the past.

Get off my lawn. :grr:

Now kids got their TikTaks and SnapTalks and whatnot! They don't know what they're missin!

Lol, yeah, our first TV was a 19-inch (might've be a 15-incher) black-and-white Zenith. I remember we had to move the thing from room to room until we found one where the reception was good enough to get all 4 channels.

The next TV was one of those cabinet-style ones (forgot the name of those things, someone help me out here), color, but still needed the antennas with the foil flags, lol.


Our van came with a CB radio.


And who can forget the kitchen phone with the 30-foot cord that would get hopelessly twisted up around itself until someone finally went to the trouble of unwinding it by allowing the cord to untwist with the handset spinning at 1,000 rpm for 5 minutes?

Good.

boomer

Sorry Fraz....you sound more like a Boomer than Gen X.

Oh and I remember when my dad moaned when gas went from 25 cents to 35 cents.

My first car...which was used cost me $425. It cost me $10 to register and $50 to insure for 6 months.

My first new car cost me $3000 and I thought I would go broke paying for it.

My first apartment rented was for $125 per month and all utilities paid...except for phone.

My first house payment $200...

Like you I could go on..

Well, I only missed the cutoff by six months. I have friends from my high school class who are technically boomers because they were born in late '64. One of them takes great pride in that. :D

I think I paid $2000 for my first used car, a '77 Monza, and rent for my first apartment was $160 a month, including utilities. My first new car, a '86 Mercury Lynx, cost $6500 - had to look that one up.

Our first color TV was a combo stereo record player/19" TV in a gigantic wood cabinet that was damn near as long as my car and nearly as heavy. By the time that came along we lived in town and had cable, so a few more channels and no more antenna madness.

And we had one of those phones with the ridiculously long twisty cord. And of course it was a rotary phone. God those sucked.

I'm a part of the forgotten generation, and I like it that way.

Your first post reminded me just now of the gigantic-ass antenna complex my dad and I had to mount on the roof of the house.


And rotary phones. Hell, just having to remember all the phone numbers of everyone you knew. Memorizing every phone number in 10 seconds or less.


Although, rotary phones were basically indestructible. I remember you could throw one across the room and it would still work.

Same.

'60 here. I never liked being lumped in with the Boomers. Hell, my dad was all of 5 when the war ended.

As to my computer experience, I got my first taste in high school. It was writing programs in Basic using the teletype to the computer at the district offices. I still have a couple rolls of the punch tape with my programs.

Early 80's the first PCs started coming out and I wished I could afford one. I settled for a Radio Shack Color Computer hooked up to a tv. Fun times! :)

My parents bought one of those massive console TVs that had the TV in the middle and a phonograph on the left and a radio on the right, with huge built-in speakers. I think they just enjoyed spending money, because they never listened to the radio and, I am not kidding about this, they owned one record album. One.

We moved every year at least once and I was always the 10-year-old who had to lift half of that thing onto the moving truck.

hell yes, it was a 'console TV,' thx for posting. That was going to drive me crazy all day, lol. Rep.

Boomer by definition (Dad was a WWII Vet), but Gen X by age (1967). All my siblings are Boomers

My mom and dad bought a Zenith with a built-in telephone in 1982. It stopped working in 90 (tube went bad), Dad fixed it for about six months more of life, and then the tube died for good in 1991.

When we finally got them moved out of that house in May of last year, that piece of shit was still sitting in the same spot (in their very small 2-bedroom home).

My mom refused to get rid of it because “it was a nice piece of furniture and I paid a lot for it!” Despite it not working for 31 years at that point.

If Dad hadn’t died, she would have insisted on dragging that worthless hunk of trash to the new house, too.

Gen X, and proud owner of a Verti-Bird, Lite Brite, Mattel Electric football (hand-held), Kenner SSp race cars, Mattel flying Aces aircraft carrier, table hockey, and many electric football and baseball games

I remember having cable as a kid and my uncle worked for the cable company. He installed some type of filter on our line that gave us all the free premium channels including paper view.

I had one of those Console TV"s....it sat in my basement until sold it to a guy who took out the TV and made it into a pretty cool stereo and record cabinet.

Paper view was Cinemax, yeah?

Please don’t sample my poll.

I’m a millennial that sadly….acts like a boomer

had my fair share of skinemax watchings late at night, my house was really small though

Grew up with chatboards. They are a dying breed, but I feel they're the last place you'll find truly unfiltered and (sometimes) thoughtful discussion on the internet. And this is coming from a Millennial.

Basically what I'm saying is CP is the final bastion of human intelligence and we must protect it at all costs.

agreed. With a disclaimer. DOS(an earliest non-mainframe language) was invented right after WWII. The numbering system for the internet around the same time. Although Alan Turing cracked the Germans enigma code and saved 14 million lives using the first card system. His thanks for all that…… since he was gay he had to be chemically casturated. True story.

I was in I.T. early. Very few were really using a home computer due to the cost. And the internet and surfing was not a part of our culture until broadband became more widely available.

Example cloud computing. AWS wasn’t even available til 2006. Wasn’t widely adopted until 2009. Microsoft’s cloud, Azure, came out in 2012 but it was 2015/2016 when it started to get widely used by business.

I see posts that say Window's 95 was the turning point. It was a lot cheaper than pc’s in that era and it started the home computing revolution but widely used by Americans didn’t start until home units went below $1000.

On the line of Gen X and millennial

1950 model boomer here. We had regular civil defense drills in elementary school in case of an atom bomb attack where we put our heads under our desks to be safe.

I Was 17 when Chiefs played in the first SB and was stationed on Guam when they won SBIV and had to wait a couple months to see it on armed forces TV.

My first computer experience was taking a class at WSU on cobol programming on the GI bill, bored me to death and I dropped the class. WTF?

Several years later I bought my daughters a Comodore 64 and had no clue what was going on with it.

Technically, I’m a millennial, but I find myself to be more of a blend of Gen X as well. I sure as hell was a latchkey kid, but on the technology side I’m more millennial. I remember using computers very young in school, like 1st grade.

Someone mentioned the ‘Oregon Trail’ generation. That’s me.