Have you tried being born in a different year?

Born in 80. Share the feeling. We are called xennials. And it's unnerving... sometimes.

Fucking same. But hey, at least for a few more months, I'm 42, so I got that going for me.

You probably started remembering stuff in '84 and were 9 in '90, so you qualify as both an 80s and 90s kid.

Considering Boomers still run the world, I wish that were true.

Oregon Trail Generation

83 here. We're a bridge generation.

We were in high school by the time the internet really started picking up, but we're exposed to tech early enough to learn it.

We also had much jankier software. I'm finding that the kids coming out of college now in non-tech fields are less tech-literate than 10-20 years ago because all the smart devices they've grown up on just do everything for them.

It feels like a good place to be.

At what age do you think one becomes irrelevant? Around the time your kids are out of the house?

Those of us who remember the tale of the land line telephone....

I don't think it's special to be a 90's kid, and nothing to really be proud of and everything. But when someone born in 98 or 99 says they are a 90's kid... That's even weirder. You were just barely aware of your surroundings for this "glorious years".

i mean that's what "X kid" means. usually if you were born in a decade you're the next decade's "kid".

My grandparents had an 8 track collection. That doesn't make me a 60s kid.

Are... Are you an AI?

Old enough to play Ocarina of Time when it came out.

Or at least old enough to play it at your cousin's house and ask your mom for it for christmas because you really wanted it but she wouldn't buy it for you because she was in full 90's helicopter parent mode and thought it looked too scary. I'm sure that's a universal experience.

OP was born in 93-94 and wants to still be included.

What's the difference between 95-96 and 93-94

Time.

What if I don't remember 9/11 (because my teachers and parents deliberately didn't tell me what was happening) but remember the Oregon trail?

Don't you have a mortgage to pay off? Hush hush to work, and leave the internet to us. Doesn't matter if you were in some usenet mailing groups already, when most people couldn't type on a keyboard.

But this specifically is calling out getting the title of millennial, why would you expect gen X to be a part of the meme?

We truly are the forgotten generation.

"Weird phase for tech" is a nice euphemism for "knows what casettes are, but didn't have to put them into computers anymore."

I agree though that it is crazy. I remember it being a big thing for teenagers being 14,15 when i was 7 or 8 to get their own mobile phone. The kids born in 2001 onwards often had their first smartphone at 8 or 9

I was born in 1980. I refuse to be in any generation, I just was born in 1980.

You're too young if you care.