That’s an interesting question and I wasn’t sure, but I was curious enough to go look it up.
According to this source, which I can’t verify the credibility of but which seems in line with what other sources say on the topic:
No official commission or group decides what each generation is called and when it starts and ends. Instead, different names and birth year cutoffs are proposed, and through a somewhat haphazard process a consensus slowly develops in the media and popular parlance.
I just had this realization with a guy I’m training at work who lived in Queens and was 2 when 9/11 happened. He has absolutely no recollection of it. Meanwhile my old ass was in high school when it happened and I can remember that day very clearly.
Heh. “Highschool”. I remember driving down the road and seeing cars abandoned in the middle of an intersection, doors open and all, just outside a popular diner on the corner. The crowd was eerily silent, packed around the TVs inside that normally showed the weather, sports, what have you. When I followed suit, a stranger turned to me and said “They hit the Twin Towers!” while behind him, a screen showed the second plane impacting.
That was a couple years postgraduate, and everything changed that day. Nothing seemed real anymore, and at the same time, everything mattered — down to a debilitating granular scale. I called a colleague who had just left for NYC on a photog trip, and he didn’t pick up. A few days later, be called back, frantic and babbling about some crazy shot he got just walking around town on his own. It was too be TIME’s cover.
Wait wait wait… Am I gen X?! My world just crumbled
Gen X is 1965 to 1981; if you just missed the mark for Gen Z, you’re possibly a millennial, aka Gen Y (1982 - 1996).
As someone from 1996 I feel split :[
Yep! I’m dumb, thanks for the correction, I’m feeling a bit less old now :)
Hey, it’s all good, welcome to Team Millennial. Here’s your complimentary ‘I Am Older Than The Internet’ T-shirt, and your back pain medication.
Good GOD I needed that medicine, thank you!
Mfs turn 30 and get a herniated disk for sleeping the wrong way.
My two herniated discs are glaring at you.
I’ve only got one so far - 22 to go
What can we do?! IT life for me…
My back after 10 minutes in city bus when it’s Irisbus Citelis 10.5M:
I feel heard
Do we get coupons for avocado toast?
So I am Gen X born 1980. And who decided this?
That’s an interesting question and I wasn’t sure, but I was curious enough to go look it up.
According to this source, which I can’t verify the credibility of but which seems in line with what other sources say on the topic:
TL;DR “It’s all made up and none of it matters!”
Gen x is 1965-1980 Gen y (millennial) is 1981-1996
There’s contention on if gen z started in 96 or 97
I choose 96
For no particular reason
I think the demarcator is whether or not you can remember 9/11
I just had this realization with a guy I’m training at work who lived in Queens and was 2 when 9/11 happened. He has absolutely no recollection of it. Meanwhile my old ass was in high school when it happened and I can remember that day very clearly.
Heh. “Highschool”. I remember driving down the road and seeing cars abandoned in the middle of an intersection, doors open and all, just outside a popular diner on the corner. The crowd was eerily silent, packed around the TVs inside that normally showed the weather, sports, what have you. When I followed suit, a stranger turned to me and said “They hit the Twin Towers!” while behind him, a screen showed the second plane impacting.
That was a couple years postgraduate, and everything changed that day. Nothing seemed real anymore, and at the same time, everything mattered — down to a debilitating granular scale. I called a colleague who had just left for NYC on a photog trip, and he didn’t pick up. A few days later, be called back, frantic and babbling about some crazy shot he got just walking around town on his own. It was too be TIME’s cover.
I recently promoted a guy to be a supervisor, and only just now realised he was born after 9/11…
I’m 96 and do not remember
Deargawd. How are you on the internet?!
Thanks!
when were you born? if its the early 80s multiple groups want to claim you
Not really, I’m clearly an Y lemming. Just sleep deprived to thing straight
“an Y” 😬😭
…and sometimes Y