Anybody here a millenial?

I'm an echo boomer...what do you know about that

 

Wow, born in '78, I'm apparently X, Y, MTV, Boomerang, 13th and part of the "Consciousness Revolution" which sounds like a good time. I just consider myself a child of the Carter years.

 

I would like to request an immediate transfer into the Lost Generation. Please and thank you.

 

Same age, STL, but if we have to be something, I think we're X. If you owned Nevermind on cassette, you're a Gen-X'er, is how I think it should be decided.

 

According to wikipedia so you KNOW it's true, Gen X starts in 1961. That somehow seems unlikely, a 46-year-old Gen X'r. I think to be a true Gen X'r, you have to kill yourself. Seriously, who can imagine Kurt Cobain having regular prostate exams?

 

I fall into both the Generation X and Y categories, according to Wikipedia. But I'm thinking that if you played Atari 2600 games WHEN THEY WERE NEW, that certainly makes you a different generation from those whose first video game experiences came on an NES.

 

First video game I ever played: Pong.



Come to think of it, Pong was the first video game.

 

It was indeed JR.

Read the book Hackers, by Steven Levy. It's a pretty interesting tale about the dawning of video games in this country, dating all the way back to the MIT days.

 

I think I may have read that book. Weren't some of those guys originally involved in hacking phones back in the late 60's and early 70's?

 

They sure were. Some group called the TMRC, I think it was called (Tech Model Railroading Club).

 

Millenial? Nope. Two suggested alternatives, however.


Millinery:



Millenarianism: