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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
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.
Yep, the last generation that remembers and lived a life before the Internet. Experience with analog but took on and embraced digital. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
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.
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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by |Zach|:
Yep, the last generation that remembers and lived a life before the Internet. Experience with analog but took on and embraced digital.
Gen X is lucky to be the last generation to reach adulthood without the internet and mobile phones. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
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.
I prefer pre internet millenial and post internet millenial, feel like there is a big difference in the two [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
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.
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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by TambaBerry:
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 fucking 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. [Reply]
Originally Posted by : Oxford Living Dictionaries describes a Millennial as a person "born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s."[44] Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Millennial as "a person born in the 1980s or 1990s".[45] More detailed definitions in use are as follows:
Jonathan Rauch, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote for The Economist in 2018 that "generations are squishy concepts", but the 1981 to 1996 birth cohort is a "widely accepted" definition for Millennials.[46] Reuters also state that the "widely accepted definition" is 1981–1996.[47]
The Pew Research Center defines Millennials as the people born from 1981 to 1996, choosing these dates for "key political, economic and social factors", including the 11 September terrorist attacks, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Great Recession, and Internet explosion.[48][49] The United States Library of Congress explains that date ranges are 'subjective' and the traits of each cohort are generalized based around common economic, social, or political factors that happened during formative years. They acknowledge disagreements, complaints over date ranges, generation names, and the overgeneralized "personality" of each generation. They suggest that marketers and journalists use the different groupings to target their marketing to particular age groups. However, they cite Pew's 1981–1996 definition to define Millennials.[50] Various media outlets and statistical organizations have cited Pew's definition including Time magazine,[51] BBC News,[52] The New York Times,[53] The Guardian,[54] the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics,[55] and Statistics Canada.[56]
The Brookings Institution defines the Millennial generation as people born from 1981 to 1996,[57] as does Gallup,[58] Federal Reserve Board,[59] and the American Psychological Association.[60] Encyclopædia Britannica defines Millennials as "the term used to describe a person born between 1981 and 1996, though different sources can vary by a year or two."[61] Although the United States Census Bureau have said that "there is no official start and end date for when Millennials were born"[62] and they do not officially define Millennials,[63] a U.S. Census publication in 2022 noted that Millennials are "colloquially defined as the cohort born from 1981 to 1996", using this definition in a breakdown of Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data.[64]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics uses the years 1981 to 1995 to define Millennials in a 2021 Census report.[65] A report by Ipsos MORI describes the term 'Millennials' as a working title for the circa 15-year birth cohort born around 1980 to 1995, which has 'unique, defining traits'.[66] Governmental institutions such as the UK Department of Health and Social Care have also used 1980 to 1995.[67] Psychologist Jean Twenge defines millennials as those born from 1980 to 1994.[68] Likewise, Australia's McCrindle Research uses the years 1980 to 1994 as Generation Y (millennial) birth years.[69]
A 2023 report by the Population Reference Bureau defines Millennials as those born from 1981 to 1999.[70][71] CNN reports that studies sometimes define Millennials as born between 1980 and 2000.[72] A 2017 BBC report has also referred to this age range in reference to that used by National Records of Scotland.[73] In the UK, the Resolution Foundation uses 1981–2000.[74] The U.S. Government Accountability Office defines Millennials as those born between 1982 and 2000.[75] Sociologist Elwood Carlson, who calls the generation "New Boomers", identified the birth years of 1983–2001, based on the upswing in births after 1983 and finishing with the "political and social challenges" that occurred after the 11 September terrorist acts.[76] Author Neil Howe, co-creator of the Strauss–Howe generational theory, defines Millennials as being born from 1982 to 2004.[23]
The cohorts born during the cusp years before and after Millennials have been identified as "microgenerations" with characteristics of both generations. Names given to these cuspers include Xennials,[77] Generation Catalano,[78] the Oregon Trail Generation;[79] Zennials[80] and Zillennials,[81] respectively. The term Geriatric Millennial gained popularity in 2021 to describe those born in the beginning half of the 1980s between 1980 and 1985. The term has since been used and discussed by various media outlets including Today,[82] CTV News,[83] HuffPost,[84] news.com.au,[85] The Irish Times,[86] and Business Insider.[87]
