Exhuminator wrote:So those born before Cobain's death are Generation X, and those born after are Millennials? I don't know if I can get behind that one. I mean, I was born in 1979, and my brother was born in 1987, but he definitely belongs to a different generation than me, yet we were both born before Cobain died.
No, there's that weird "Generation Y" alternate name. So the way we go, the Gen Y folks(who have much more in common with the Gen X group) is the pre-Cobain side, while the folks after are the proper Millennials, those that have no experience with a world pre-Internet.
Exhuminator wrote:So those born before Cobain's death are Generation X, and those born after are Millennials? I don't know if I can get behind that one. I mean, I was born in 1979, and my brother was born in 1987, but he definitely belongs to a different generation than me, yet we were both born before Cobain died.
No, there's that weird "Generation Y" alternate name. So the way we go, the Gen Y folks(who have much more in common with the Gen X group) is the pre-Cobain side, while the folks after are the proper Millennials, those that have no experience with a world pre-Internet.
After doing some cursory glancing around, it appears most researchers determine Gen Y and Millennials as being the same generation. And folks born from 1977-1994-ish fall into this bracket. Whereas people born after are part of the Generation Z segment. A few links:
Now I'm not saying that's right, just seems to be the popular consensus from what I saw with a bit of quick research.
I do think your distinction of those who remember the world pre-internet belong to a different generation than those who do not, is a very intriguing dichotomy.
I think those researchers underestimate the impact knowing a pre-internet (or even pre-dial-up) America has. I was born at the end of '91, so I have some early memories of not having access to the internet and a LOT of memories of having nothing but dial-up. These kids and teenagers today growing up with their newfangled MacPhones and MyFace accounts and Tweeters don't know what it was like back when mom told you to get offline because she was expecting a call. Now they've got the internet in the little devil boxes in their pockets!
ElkinFencer10 wrote: mom told you to get offline because she was expecting a call.
it's crazy right? I wonder how many of us remember the days when we had to wait to use the internet until next month because all of our hours had been used up for the month.
I thought it was early '80s for Gen Y. I consider myself a late Gen X ('79).
Honestly, the way I was raised, though? If not for the video games, I'd probably be closer to a Boomer ('50s). Sometimes I feel kinda displaced in my own timeline. Probably wouldn't want to live back then, no vidja games.
Sometimes I feel kinda displaced in my own timeline. Probably wouldn't want to live back then, no vidja games. 
