Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

@thordis I figured it was more GenX. Looks like we were both right.

@thordis

Mapping of recent generations...

By Rich Farmbrough - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=172599329

@thordis Born a boomer but raised in seclusion. Escaped in the 80s. So, part of the Huey Lewis and The News generation, I guess.

@targetdrone @thordis
Hey, buddy. Nice to meet you. Like any conversational idiom, Generation Oregon Trail does not mean "the collection of all people who have every played Oregon Trail."
MECC did great work throughout that period. Love that the mainfraime version still exists.
https://archive.org/details/OregonTrailMainframe

@thordis Very interesting, other polls mostly came out with a large Boomer + GenZ majority: https://mastodon.de/@blechterror/114796826248086747

@alice @jwcph @thordis And if you wrote a Wikipedia article about it and still don't remember, you could be Gen X.

And if you watched a dozen YT vids about it and still don't remember, you could be Gen Z.

And if you shared 10 TikToks about it and still don't remember, you yould be Millenial.

Right?

@Tattie @thordis @szczurtorebkowy I've always thought the generations start in the middle of the decade since the baby boom began in 1946. Back in the 90s when they started calling us Gen X, in the metrics I read a generation was defined as a 20 year period and Gen X were born from 65-84. But then it changed to cultural periods instead and they shifted the bar so now it's only 15 years between the current young generations. Like our parents are only 15 years older than us!

@thordis Xoomer (late Boomer) here

@adriano @quixoticgeek @darkphoenix @marjolica @thordis we'll accept you.

@tieandjeans @thordis All I'm saying is that when I was a kid, I played a lot of Oregon Trail and would happily identify with any Gen Oregon Trail, which isn't that different from you. But I'm a boomer, and that may have been anywhere between one and twenty years before you. Gen X doesn't have an exclusive lock on ancient gaming nostalgia.

@targetdrone
Gen Oregon trail denotes a generation experience in the INTERSECTION of GenX and Millenial. It suggests that computing in your childhood was NOVEL and LIMITED.

@targetdrone
GenX computing goes from punch-card to Atari 2600.
Millennial computing goes from NES through Napster and Neopets.

At most points in both directions, some kids were "doing computer," but that was a sociably legible activity. It made you a "computer person" in some way.

Gen Z starts with ubiquitous computing shedding any social distinction.

If your school had a "computer room" but no web browsers, you might be Gen Oregon Trail.

@targetdrone

Don't you feel that your experience with mainframe computers as a young "late-boomer" put you into a fantastically narrow sub-group? Would you describe those early computing experiences as normative across boomers?

@crispycat @thordis why are you censoring words on mastodon? Why censor "zoomer"? No offence, just curious.

@Darberoom1954 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis it's ok, Tylenol is a great rememdy

@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
Does it work for brain worms? Asking for a friend.

@Darberoom1954 @szczurtorebkowy @thordis have the worms gone full on The Last of Us cordyceps yet and control their every move or are they still in there somewhere? Has your friend started talking like someone ran a cheese grater over their vocal cord? I'm sorry, but it could be too late.

@thordis
Wife & I will be 70 this year.
Techhub people, what's a friendly word for 70+ peeps? ( I'm not in love with the senior word.)
Thanks.
Bill

@OhMrBill Personally I like "elder" - although that isn't terribly specific.

@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
He has found this cool cave but now he is hearing "Keep on Running" by milli vanilli.