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Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:16 pm to Portballs
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But on the flip side, Gen X are actually the parents that now coddle their kids to extremes....
Not this one.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:21 pm to Lonnie Utah
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But I'll just concede to the superior millennials that they're right because they read about it somewhere...
It seems like you think millenials are still fresh out of college or something.
What's funny is that thread about the pornstar MILF/cougar's 45th birthday made me realize how fricking old millenials are now. That bitch saw personal computing come around too.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:32 pm to GRTiger
quote:Sure, computers existed when you were growing up. That’s not the point.
That bitch saw personal computing come around too.
The point is whether you experienced computing as a finished product… or as a moving target.
I didn’t just “use” computers. I loaded programs from cassette. I typed commands at a blinking cursor. I tweaked AUTOEXEC.BAT so games would run. I dabbled in machine language when that was still something a curious kid could realistically poke at. That wasn’t exotic — it was normal if you were into it.
We watched the shift from hobbyist boxes to mainstream machines. From dial-up modems to broadband. From command line to GUI. From local disks to global internet.
By the time most 40-somethings came online, the rough edges were already sanded down. Windows existed. The internet was packaged. Plug-and-play mostly worked. You didn’t have to fight the machine just to make it do something interesting.
That doesn’t make your experience lesser. It makes it different.
Some of us grew up when computing was still a frontier.
Others grew up when it was infrastructure.
There’s a difference between arriving at the party… and helping wire the building. You're welcome.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:36 pm to RoyalWe
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Sure, computers existed when you were growing up. That’s not the point.
The point is whether you experienced computing as a finished product… or as a moving target.
I didn’t just “use” computers. I loaded programs from cassette. I typed commands at a blinking cursor. I tweaked AUTOEXEC.BAT so games would run. I dabbled in machine language when that was still something a curious kid could realistically poke at. That wasn’t exotic — it was normal if you were into it.
We watched the shift from hobbyist boxes to mainstream machines. From dial-up modems to broadband. From command line to GUI. From local disks to global internet.
By the time most 40-somethings came online, the rough edges were already sanded down. Windows existed. The internet was packaged. Plug-and-play mostly worked. You didn’t have to fight the machine just to make it do something interesting.
That doesn’t make your experience lesser. It makes it different.
Some of us grew up when computing was still a frontier.
Others grew up when it was infrastructure.
There’s a difference between arriving at the party… and helping wire the building. You're welcome.
I'm a "millennial" and I did everything you just described.
PC didn't make the leap to start competing with consoles until the early 90s, and even then it wasn't comparable, much less better for gaming.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:42 pm to RoyalWe
You sound kind of incredibly gay and insecure. Thanks for explaining it to me.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:43 pm to GRTiger
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incredibly gay
Pretty gay way to call someone gay
Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:26 pm to GRTiger
Relax. I’m not drawing battle lines here.
If you were loading from cassette, fighting DOS memory limits, dialing into BBS boards, and hand-editing config files, then you were in that early wave too. That’s the only distinction I was making.
This isn’t 50s vs 40s vs millennials.
It’s about whether your first experience with computing was “figure it out or it doesn’t work” versus “click it and it works.”
Plenty of people across multiple age groups hit that early phase.
We’re arguing over inches on a timeline that moved at light speed.
If you were loading from cassette, fighting DOS memory limits, dialing into BBS boards, and hand-editing config files, then you were in that early wave too. That’s the only distinction I was making.
This isn’t 50s vs 40s vs millennials.
It’s about whether your first experience with computing was “figure it out or it doesn’t work” versus “click it and it works.”
Plenty of people across multiple age groups hit that early phase.
We’re arguing over inches on a timeline that moved at light speed.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:50 pm to Rouge
Just testing you Xers 
SOB passed with his calm response. Very annoying.
SOB passed with his calm response. Very annoying.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 5:54 pm to RoyalWe
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Relax. I’m not drawing battle lines here.
Yeah you were
Thanks for helping me figure out commander keen and whatnot though
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:21 pm to Sun God
D-Generation X has two words for you.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:23 pm to RoyalWe
Millennials in this thread proving the OP correct. Even when personal experiences of those that lived thru the times are conveyed, the millennials are still telling the GenXers that lived it they are wrong about what happened or that their memories are wrong. GenXers brush it off and move on....
And some Millennial will DV this and tell me I'm full of crap. And according to the "experts" in this thread we're the cynical apathetic ones...
And some Millennial will DV this and tell me I'm full of crap. And according to the "experts" in this thread we're the cynical apathetic ones...
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 6:25 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:37 pm to Lonnie Utah
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Millennials in this thread proving the OP correct. Even when personal experiences of those that lived thru the times are conveyed, the millennials are still telling the GenXers that lived it they are wrong about what happened or that their memories are wrong. GenXers brush it off and move on.... And some Millennial will DV this and tell me I'm full of crap. And according to the "experts" in this thread we're the cynical apathetic ones...
You fixated on a minor detail and threw the baby out with the bath water. I’ll tell you what, let’s start over. Instead of talking to normies, I’m going to talk to you:
In my opinion, the proliferation of easy home access to the World Wide Web in the late 90s into the early 2000s ushered in a significant sea change in the way the world of the average person worked, which significantly impacted the worldview of kids raised after that moment. Same thing for 9/11/2001. The fact that the two of them more or less occurred at the same time creates an incredible watershed moment in history, marking significant differences, on average, between people who had formative years before that mark and those who didn’t.
Agree or disagree? If you disagree, why so?
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:51 pm to Lonnie Utah
Thinking more about this the OP is full of it. The most emotionally durable generation is the Greatest generation by leaps and bounds. They lived thru the great depression and WWII. The rest of us don't even come close to the intestinal fortitude of those folks.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:01 pm to RoyalWe
Should’ve gone with something earlier, DX was right in my wheelhouse
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:02 pm to Lonnie Utah
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Thinking more about this the OP is full of it. The most emotionally durable generation is the Greatest generation by leaps and bounds. They lived thru the great depression and WWII. The rest of us don't even come close to the intestinal fortitude of those folks.
Yup
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:28 pm to Joshjrn
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Agree or disagree? If you disagree, why so?
I'll start by saying, seeing 9/11 as a teenager isn’t the same as experiencing it as as an adult. Experiencing history as a teen can seem dramatic at the time, but l would counter by saying how much of it is influence is due to limited worldview at 14 or 15? In contrast, Gen X experienced Watergate, the Vietnam war and fall of Siagon, the Iran hostage crisis, the challenger disaster, and the Gulf War I all dramatic events in their own right (admittedly they do all pale in comparison to 9/11). To my point, think of all the dranatic world events that have happened since 9/11. Each one shapes our view of the others.
If you pressed me, id say the real generational shift in perspective for society in general but Millennials specificallly had less to do with 9/11 or widespread internet and more to do with the polifeation of the smartphone. The instant information, constant connection, and relentless social feedback have done more to shape how an entire generation views and interprets the world than the other two events.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 7:40 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:40 pm to Lonnie Utah
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I'll start with seeing 9/11 as a teenager isn’t the same as experiencing it as as an adult. Experiencing history as a teen can feel dramatic, but l would say how much of it is influence is due to limited worldview at 14 or 15? In contrast, Gen X grew up amid Watergate, Vietnam, the Iran hostage crisis, and the Gulf War I all dramatic events in their own right (albiet pale in comparison to 9/11). If you pressed me, id say the real generational shift in perspective for society in general but Millennials specificallly had less to do with 9/11 or widespread internet and more to do with the polifeation of the smartphone. The instant information, constant connection, and relentless social feedback have done more to shape how an entire generation views and interprets the world than the other two events.
I think I understand where we are going wrong, and why you were so inquisitive about what I remembered about the time period.
I’m not saying that those events substantially impacted people; I’m saying those events changed the world permanently, and the way the world changed substantially impacted people. Do you not agree that the proliferation of easy home access to the WWW and 9/11 ushered in significant societal changes that shaped people in their formative years differently than had those changes not occurred?
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:41 pm to Joshjrn
Edit: Not 100%. They were impactful, but the answer you seek is the smartphone. 2007. The point where people could carry the world in their pocket.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:53 pm to Lonnie Utah
And I feel I have to elaborate. They all worked together in a stepwise process. The shift from a text based web led to desire for"Unlimited" WWW access which led to the proliferation of broadband. It culminated in the smartphone. 9/11 and other world events serve as time markers along the way, and did change the world in their own way, but in reality were unrelated to the technological things that were happening. The technology allowed us to absorb the events more efficiently but their influence on the world (tech vs current events) was separate from one another.
This post was edited on 3/2/26 at 7:54 pm
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