re: What is the Line of Demarcation between Generation X / Millennials ?

To me the cut off date is for Gen X is 1980. My reasoning for that is my younger sister was born in 1981 and her and her friends are of a totally different mindset than those of only a couple years older than them.

'74 here and I'd consider 80-81 to be the cut off. No way 85 is GenX but you might be more cool than most millennials.

late twenties baw

If you were born in 1980, as I was, you should have been playing Oregon Trail on apple computers in elementary school. Buying your first CD by the end of middle school. Someone you knew had a bag phone for their car, everyone was buying pagers by the start of HS, also Gateway computers and AOL dialup was happening. By graduation, everyone had the Nokia phones. In college Napster or Limewire was the big thing in the beginning and by the time you left college, myspace was big and Facebook was alive but private. We are millenials on tech but Xers on values.

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That's WAY too big a gap in my opinion. A person born in 1964 turned 10 in 1974 and graduated high school in 1982. A kid born in 1984 graduated high school in 2002. There's no way those two overlap in any meaningful way.

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This.

My ex wife was born in 1964. I was born in 1974. We were drastically different.

88. I fall in the Millennials but I remember the days before cell phones and Dial up internet. Getting AOL 5.0 was a big deal! We got cable in 2003!

It was late in high school that cell phones became common for students...I had a nokia brick while most of my friends had razors......

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If you were born in 1980, as I was, you should have been playing Oregon Trail on apple computers in elementary school. Buying your first CD by the end of middle school. Someone you knew had a bag phone for their car, everyone was buying pagers by the start of HS, also Gateway computers and AOL dialup was happening. By graduation, everyone had the Nokia phones. In college Napster or Limewire was the big thing in the beginning and by the time you left college, myspace was big and Facebook was alive but private. We are millenials on tech but Xers on values.

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I was born in '87 yet this still describes me pretty well. But I was the youngest with two sisters born in '83 and '84, so I usually only got new things once they discarded them or as they got them.

what happened to Y?


eta: generally, people born after around 1980 seem very different to me (people with older siblings, or only kids with older parents, are often exceptions).

my grandfather was born at the turn of the century, so i probably feel older than i should given my age. I knew my great uncle very well--i was almost a teen when he died--and he was born in the 1800s.