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Yes, most of us GenX'ers grew up with home video game consoles, and the early Apple computers that didn't do sh*t.
Thank you! I thought I was still completely stupid. The very first computer class I took was Apple Basic....and in the whole course I never could get the computer to do anything different other than turn on and say hello.....
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The difference is, we can appreciate it, because we saw it 'born'.
We remember the old days of fingering the round dial (and God help you if you got the number wrong), no remotes, only having 4 channels, all black and white, etc.
Party lines
The National Anthem as the channels went off and to the test pattern
Standing and saying the pledge of the Allegiance every morning at school
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While I think GenX very much is it's own distinct generation, I say we as a whole are more like Boomers.
GenX was the last generation to grow up without the internet, and cell phones, and that is the real divide, and makes us closer to the Boomers.
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Maybe.
The irony is we have been using cell phones, computers, and the like longer than the Millennials as we were there at the very beginning.
When I'm not working, have a chore to do, or working out (martial arts). I'd say Ever since I got my first smart phone I been on the internet constantly in my free time. I sometimes out and hike or something like that, I leave the iPhone alone. But on an average. Yeah I'm in digital world.
So maybe that's why I feel a bit more in tune with millennials....maybe.
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Yes, most of us GenX'ers grew up with home video game consoles, and the early Apple computers that didn't do sh*t.
Still, even with that stuff, we tended to have lives outside of technology, and had a great deal of independence compared to the following generations.
Uh, the days of the boom box, walkmans, and Atari, I remember well. I skipped the mohawk, but have a picture of myself on my BMX bike with Vans shoes, and my Swatch watch. I did have a starter mullet going on. LoL
Ha! I was quintessentially Northern Californian. Surfboards in our garage, raced BMX myself in both powderpuff and boy's novice class. My dad raced flat track and was thrilled to have a tomboy for a daughter. Until I went through that whole aforementioned rebellious mohawk phase. That was a bridge too far for the old man.
The difference is, we can appreciate it, because we saw it 'born'.
We remember the old days of fingering the round dial (and God help you if you got the number wrong), no remotes, only having 4 channels, all black and white, etc.
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Has anyone but me noticed that sometimes behavior's and things come back around as well? I grew up without the microwave and didn't get our first one till the mid-80's. When I mentioned this my son actually went as far as to ask me, "Then how'd you cook?" Now our millennial generation seems to be more food conscious and it's all about the food prep, the cooking and seem to have a good grasp on the culinary world. (Or at least my millennial does). Any other things that we grew up with.....lost there for awhile.....but seem's to be making a comeback for the younger generation?
When I'm not working, have a chore to do, or working out (martial arts). I'd say Ever since I got my first smart phone I been on the internet constantly in my free time. I sometimes out and hike or something like that, I leave the iPhone alone. But on an average. Yeah I'm in digital world.
So maybe that's why I feel a bit more in tune with millennials....maybe.
Everyone uses the Internet and cell phones all the time now. I see guys 25 years older than me doing Facebook on their phones.
My point was that is presented as this defining characteristic of a Generation. Well that is fine except that the prior Generation was already doing it and even the one before them have caught up. Hell, we are all doing it right now on this site.
Sorry old bro. It's just not that new or innovative anymore.
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