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Generation Range Opinions Mar 19, 2024 4:07:41 GMT Trance likes this

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Post by Springy on Mar 19, 2024 4:07:41 GMT

A lot of people forget there's a lot more crossover and divide between generations than expected. I feel like most millenials will have more in common with early zoomers (born 1998/1999) than those born later in the 2000's/2010s and so on and so forth. It needs to be divided better overall, the current classifications make little to no sense these days and the mocking on what younger generations are currently doing is ridiculous. We've all done stuff that looks silly in hindsight.

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Generation Range Opinions Mar 19, 2024 20:58:39 GMT Springy likes this

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Mar 19, 2024 4:07:41 GMT Springy said:

A lot of people forget there's a lot more crossover and divide between generations than expected. I feel like most millenials will have more in common with early zoomers (born 1998/1999) than those born later in the 2000's/2010s and so on and so forth. It needs to be divided better overall, the current classifications make little to no sense these days and the mocking on what younger generations are currently doing is ridiculous. We've all done stuff that looks silly in hindsight.

I agree. That's why I typically group "older Gen Z" with Millennials, and am comfortable with the "last year" of the Millennial being 1996 instead of 1994. I was a bizarrely strict "1994 ONLY" person before. But after talking to so many Gen Z, especially late 90s and early 00s ones, I realized that a lot of them lived lives that just weren't too different from mine (primarily) in the 90s. Sure, they had more internet time, they used some different style of sites, more DVDs than VHS, and knew of basic cell phones or laptops, not many had them themselves though. They still watched TV on family TVs like I did, rented physical media, used a family computer, played outside and did lots of creative stuff. Not much social media. I was surprised to find the overall cores of their lives weren't too dissimilar to mine!

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Post by cheesypizza2000 on Mar 20, 2024 19:30:53 GMT

Mar 18, 2024 1:08:23 GMT rowler said:

Gen X: Generation raised on TV

Millennials: Generation raised on VHS and Computers

Gen Z: Generation raised on the internet and DVDs

Gen Alpha: Generation raised on smartphones/tablets and streaming

I'm a 2000 baby but I still grew up mostly with VHS tapes. I knew how to read by the time I began nursery school (according to the date on the picture I was 2 1/2 years old. Despite having this skill in literacy, I was otherwise significantly developmentally delayed) and knew how to put CDs into the computer, so I was able to play my games independently (most of the PC games I like were designed for Windows 98 to XP). I remember seeing floppy disks when I was very young and knew what they are, although I didn't actually use them until I bought some myself when I got older. In primary school we used AlphaSmarts, and we didn't have a Smart Board until second grade despite the technology existing in the '90s. Common Core (which became problematic since everyone at my school had IEPs) wasn't until around fourth or fifth grade. Even though the iPad existed around the same time, my school didn't get them until I already graduated, so instead of iPads we used laminated Boardmaker PECS symbols in binders. Early on in middle school we used laptops but eventually we switched to iPads. I guess my childhood was at the point in time where there were rapid advances in technology but some people still relied on the devices from the late '90s and early '00s. My grandmother kept a CRT until around the time the analog shutdown was announced, even though I still would have been able to use it for VHS/DVD and video games. I think I still saw people using flip phones regularly until I was about 12.

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Generation Range Opinions Mar 20, 2024 20:20:03 GMT cheesypizza2000 likes this

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Post by rowler on Mar 20, 2024 20:20:03 GMT

Mar 20, 2024 19:30:53 GMT cheesypizza2000 said:

Mar 18, 2024 1:08:23 GMT rowler said:

Gen X: Generation raised on TV

Millennials: Generation raised on VHS and Computers

Gen Z: Generation raised on the internet and DVDs

Gen Alpha: Generation raised on smartphones/tablets and streaming

I'm a 2000 baby but I still grew up mostly with VHS tapes. I knew how to read by the time I began nursery school (according to the date on the picture I was 2 1/2 years old. Despite having this skill in literacy, I was otherwise significantly developmentally delayed) and knew how to put CDs into the computer, so I was able to play my games independently (most of the PC games I like were designed for Windows 98 to XP). I remember seeing floppy disks when I was very young and knew what they are, although I didn't actually use them until I bought some myself when I got older. In primary school we used AlphaSmarts, and we didn't have a Smart Board until second grade despite the technology existing in the '90s. Common Core (which became problematic since everyone at my school had IEPs) wasn't until around fourth or fifth grade. Even though the iPad existed around the same time, my school didn't get them until I already graduated, so instead of iPads we used laminated Boardmaker PECS symbols in binders. Early on in middle school we used laptops but eventually we switched to iPads. I guess my childhood was at the point in time where there were rapid advances in technology but some people still relied on the devices from the late '90s and early '00s. My grandmother kept a CRT until around the time the analog shutdown was announced, even though I still would have been able to use it for VHS/DVD and video games. I think I still saw people using flip phones regularly until I was about 12.

You can still have stuff from the previous generation but new technology does shape how people were raised and their nostalgia.

I'm a millennial, I didn't watch a DVD until I was a teenager. There was no YouTube when I was a kid. I played computer games because the internet back then was very basic and slow. The first time I played a Flash game was in middle school. I didn't own a smart phone until college. A lot of zoomers have childhood nostalgia of browsing the internet, playing games, watching vids, playing MMOs (like Club Penguin). While some millennials may only have a very limited or basic nostalgia for the internet as a young child. Some may have played the early form of Neopets before being told to get off the internet, someone needs to make a phone call. That is why millennials tend to be more nostalgic about chat rooms and early social media because those were targeted at teenagers.

Floppy Disks were used a lot when I was a kid. There were no USB drives, so it was often used for saving data. Later then switched over to giving kids CDs instead, which still were not as good as USB drives.

I also remember using this is school when I took a digital art class.

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Generation Range Opinions Mar 20, 2024 21:26:09 GMT

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Post by cheesypizza2000 on Mar 20, 2024 21:26:09 GMT

Mar 20, 2024 20:20:03 GMT rowler said:

Mar 20, 2024 19:30:53 GMT cheesypizza2000 said:

I'm a 2000 baby but I still grew up mostly with VHS tapes. I knew how to read by the time I began nursery school (according to the date on the picture I was 2 1/2 years old. Despite having this skill in literacy, I was otherwise significantly developmentally delayed) and knew how to put CDs into the computer, so I was able to play my games independently (most of the PC games I like were designed for Windows 98 to XP). I remember seeing floppy disks when I was very young and knew what they are, although I didn't actually use them until I bought some myself when I got older. In primary school we used AlphaSmarts, and we didn't have a Smart Board until second grade despite the technology existing in the '90s. Common Core (which became problematic since everyone at my school had IEPs) wasn't until around fourth or fifth grade. Even though the iPad existed around the same time, my school didn't get them until I already graduated, so instead of iPads we used laminated Boardmaker PECS symbols in binders. Early on in middle school we used laptops but eventually we switched to iPads. I guess my childhood was at the point in time where there were rapid advances in technology but some people still relied on the devices from the late '90s and early '00s. My grandmother kept a CRT until around the time the analog shutdown was announced, even though I still would have been able to use it for VHS/DVD and video games. I think I still saw people using flip phones regularly until I was about 12.

You can still have stuff from the previous generation but new technology does shape how people were raised and their nostalgia.

I'm a millennial, I didn't watch a DVD until I was a teenager. There was no YouTube when I was a kid. I played computer games because the internet back then was very basic and slow. The first time I played a Flash game was in middle school. I didn't own a smart phone until college. A lot of zoomers have childhood nostalgia of browsing the internet, playing games, watching vids, playing MMOs (like Club Penguin). While some millennials may only have a very limited or basic nostalgia for the internet as a young child. Some may have played the early form of Neopets before being told to get off the internet, someone needs to make a phone call. That is why millennials tend to be more nostalgic about chat rooms and early social media because those were targeted at teenagers.

Floppy Disks were used a lot when I was a kid. There were no USB drives, so it was often used for saving data. Later then switched over to giving kids CDs instead, which still were not as good as USB drives.

I also remember using this is school when I took a digital art class.

My dad's camcorder ran on tape.
I loved Flash games was devastated when Flash EOL was announced. Is it still possible to download Flash games that are not on Flashpoint as long as the URL works on Internet Archive?
Until I caved in and got a Switch, the newest video game I had was from 2012 (although almost all of my games were from the '90s and '00s, mostly for Game Boy (original, Color, and Advance) and DS).

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Generation Range Opinions Mar 20, 2024 22:49:39 GMT

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Post by nildrohain on Mar 20, 2024 22:49:39 GMT

Mar 20, 2024 19:30:53 GMT cheesypizza2000 said:

Mar 18, 2024 1:08:23 GMT rowler said:

Gen X: Generation raised on TV

Millennials: Generation raised on VHS and Computers

Gen Z: Generation raised on the internet and DVDs

Gen Alpha: Generation raised on smartphones/tablets and streaming

I'm a 2000 baby but I still grew up mostly with VHS tapes. I knew how to read by the time I began nursery school (according to the date on the picture I was 2 1/2 years old. Despite having this skill in literacy, I was otherwise significantly developmentally delayed) and knew how to put CDs into the computer, so I was able to play my games independently (most of the PC games I like were designed for Windows 98 to XP). I remember seeing floppy disks when I was very young and knew what they are, although I didn't actually use them until I bought some myself when I got older. In primary school we used AlphaSmarts, and we didn't have a Smart Board until second grade despite the technology existing in the '90s. Common Core (which became problematic since everyone at my school had IEPs) wasn't until around fourth or fifth grade. Even though the iPad existed around the same time, my school didn't get them until I already graduated, so instead of iPads we used laminated Boardmaker PECS symbols in binders. Early on in middle school we used laptops but eventually we switched to iPads. I guess my childhood was at the point in time where there were rapid advances in technology but some people still relied on the devices from the late '90s and early '00s. My grandmother kept a CRT until around the time the analog shutdown was announced, even though I still would have been able to use it for VHS/DVD and video games. I think I still saw people using flip phones regularly until I was about 12.

Yeah that was one of the biggest surprises to me (Millennial), how many Gen Z kids knew VHS and even watched and had VHS tapes! I just assumed everyone switched over to DVD by like 2003 or something. Same for laptops-so many of them just had a single family computer, like I did. Almost none mentioned using social media until their teen years, a few got basic cell phones and/or ipods/MP3 players in their preteen years at the earliest. It was super fascinating to hear!

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Generation Range Opinions Mar 20, 2024 22:52:22 GMT

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Post by nildrohain on Mar 20, 2024 22:52:22 GMT

I think we also have to remember with grouping generations and technology that:
Not every family gets the "new tech" right away.
Not every family member gets their own tech.
Not every country gets the same tech at the same time.
Not every family can afford new tech.
Old tech can be reused throughout generations

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