Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

@thordis Cool little poll. Not surprised by those numbers.

@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
Brought to you by RFK jr.

@thordis
Gen W. Not really a 'boomer' as it was all over by then but before genX came around. The "BTDTGTTS" generation.

@jaystephens And as the poll results show, this post reached over 3,600 Gen Xers that @thordis hadn't noticed!

@thordis@theforkiverse.com
I have no clue. I'm from when these terms didn't exist

@thordis Interesting. I thought it was only for the internet OGs.

@thordis

I'd love to know more about the micro groups represented in this sample...

I've often found myself philosophically aligned with the x+llenial or "mix tape generation" often represented by the overlap between X/Millennial generations. (The early technology crowd)

I'd guess that's what we're seeing in this survey. Tons of late-X, early-Millennial.

@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?