Baby Boomers vs. Generation X vs. Millennials

I clicked on the google image I wanted. A website came up. I right clicked on the image address in the website. it was a jpg and I posted it here.

fuck you burrito, you haven't made any attempt to explain this coherently

trying again

https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/a4c75e8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/629x419+70+0/resize/2400x1600!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewatlas-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Farchive%2Fcellpics-37.jpg

ok, that was the cellphone I had in the 90s

Let’s just not use any links from whatever newatlas.com is

sorry! it was just an image that came up on google that looked like the right cellphone.

this wouldn't have been worth the effort except for my learning how to post images here again, thank you unperson and el tomboto

;-P

I've had the same problem posting images lately too. They're all attached to websites - where are all the jpegs? Something's different bc I used to post images all the time with never a problem.

think my first smartphone was c2009 or 2010.

I'm "I remember when WAP stood for Wireless Access Protocol" years old

I’m old enough to remember it stood for sexless White Anglo-Protestant - though my memory might not serve me that well there anymore.

Those were usually referred to as WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant).

In the '80s, people already had cable TV, the Walkman, video games, VCRs.

uhhh I feel like that's a retrospective over-generalization, also "cable TV" didn't mean you had "the cool channels" -- my middle-class family had "cable" because of the geography of where we lived, but that consisted of 2 PBS stations (yes, we lived in a nice place, we had 2), ABC affiliate, NBC affiliate, CBS affiliate, and two independent channels that played like, re-runs of Brady Bunch and CHiPS, and had stuff like "Dialing for Dollars" with mediocre social issues movies. I think CNN got added to this at some point in the 90s, as well as some other movie channel that at one point around 1989 showed Rio Bravo every day for a month. I did really like Rio Bravo, but I don't think that when you say "cable TV" you mean, watching Rio Bravo every day for a month because that was the most interesting entertainment choice available.

most people I know didn't get a walkman until like late 80s (at the earliest), but we had boomboxes.

video games: people tended to have maybe a dozen games, tops? These tended to be the families that had two or more male children. We had the tank game that came with the Atari and Pitfall. I got pretty good at Pitfall.

VCRs: depending where you lived, renting movies was "an expedition" and often required parental supervision. ... or you could record stuff from TV ...

Idk I feel like there is this ret-conning (?) of the 80s based on like, John Hughes movies and sitcoms featuring affluent families, where teenagers had all the cool gadgets, because they were aspirational portrayals of life in America.

ok, I gotta walk that one back -- the movie channel with Rio Bravo was like 1993. Also I think we "owned" a handful of movies in the 1980s that were like, a couple classic British caper films from the 1950s/1960s, a couple westerns, and a couple Vietnam movies. ... still though, the concept that even back in the 1980s, kids/teens had this huge variety of choice of mediated entertainment is wrong, in my experience.

My friends and I all had video games and VCRs and they had cable (my family didn't get it until I was in college) but I played outside far more than I played indoors. Only was indoors after dark or if it was storming.

I checked out books from the library and listened to the radio, occasionally my mom would take me to a mall or shopping district in a town 20 miles a way where I could buy tapes and books that the library didn't have. I wrote a sci-fi novel on my mom's MS-DOS running computer that had a word processing program.

when I was a teenager I was usually feeling listless and dysphoric so I really wanted pop cultural pabulum to distract me - didn't really want to go outside that often, even when it wasn't raining - but would just end up playing the same video game to the point of tedium. or watching whatever shit was on tv - and we only had 4 or 5 channels so you couldn't be that selective.

if I was a zoomer I would definitely just be at home on fortnight, discord, youtube, tiktok etc.

even when it wasn't raining

Damn.

Those were usually referred to as WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant).

Sometimes we shortened Anglo-Saxon to Ass.

a strange man asks if you saw the Ass on that one

God, and for years I thought people were referring to the music-makers of ditties such as "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)"

George & Barbara Bush were members of said group, "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)" was their sentimental favorite

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— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) January 31, 2021

Born 1941, Crosby actually fits none of these three categories!

Boomer is a mindset.

20 year old pink floyd fans who hate all this modern rap crap are total boomers

Does it work the other way? In 2021, are there 75 year-old millennials? 90 year-old Gen Xers?

Bernie is a Zoomer, Warren is a Gen Xer

Does it work the other way? In 2021, are there 75 year-old millennials? 90 year-old Gen Xers?

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, January 31, 2021 8:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

ilm

damn roasted

/r/lewronggeneration/

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzbsNWoVEAY4WVe?format=png&name=small

I'm sad I have only two eyes to roll at that

i'm with her. my life is harder and more culturally significant than other people's. it can be universalized.

I think we all recall that brief but harrowing war and famine that involved everyone born in 1981, but hardly anyone else.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/geriatric-millennial-proud/

the world's biggest jerkoff motion isn't enough

i was born in 89 but i have flecks of gray in my hair and beard now.

i identify as a geriatric millennial.

89? you are still just a baby. the real aging comes later

I'm four years younger than the "geriatric" cutoff date, it's true. It is surprising how quickly you can slip from being a "vaguely young person" to a "generic adult".

you are at your peak right now and for the next several years, at least as I remember it

I'd say people ascend to a series of peaks of various types. i'd wager treesh has more and better peaks to come than he has yet in the rear view.

I'm bullish on treesh futures

https://i.imgur.com/SRDTuZ4.jpg

Boomers thinking it was their generation that landed on Utah Beach is one of the best ongoing bits in history.

I'm sick of twitter pwnage in general but that is a near perfect specimen to which I must bow

https://genx-or-not.glitch.me

I'm not clicking some random looking site, what am I, a boomer?

I was wondering today, how have old people changed over the last few decades? The world changed enough during each of their lifetimes that someone born in 1901 (80 in 1981) would have had a very different perspective than someone born in 1941 (80 today).
But the very old tend to be tarred by the same brush, and I don't know where to go to read further about this.