@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?

@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
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 @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 I've been in the classroom with middle and highschool students since 2001.
There are always microgeneration bubbles. Current HS students are clear on the Z/Alpha border.

@thordis I am socially on the GenX side of Xennial, firmly part of Generation Oregon Trail.
https://eichy815.medium.com/xennials-the-oregon-trail-microgeneration-95a2badab4d7