I was born in 81, so I get lumped in as a millennial AND a gen-Xer AND an 80s kid AND a 90s kid… Anyone I try to have a discussion with assumes I’m wrong because I’m either too young or too old to understand. People older than me think I’m a most leftist bleeding heart liberal that has ever existed, but people younger than me think I’m a hard line conservative half the time. Quite frankly it’s exhausting.
If you wanna get real pedantic about it, millennials are considered to be FROM 1981 to 1996. I was born a few years after you, and I get called an Elder Millennial. Which always makes me imagine those Teletubbie Elders and they’re bad ass.
ETA: I don’t think you can ever escape the “you’re too young to understand” crowd of GenX haters. I caught that shade too, which is extremely boring and rude lol
Born in 80. Share the feeling. We are called xennials. And it’s unnerving… sometimes.
Honestly I’d argue it was the sweetest spot to live in, we came home with the street lights and didn’t have to go through metal detectors at school.
The only problem is literally no one younger or older than us cares that we struggled with the boomers for longer than anyone. Millennials call me boomer, boomers call me millennial. Fuck all of you I remember what the world was like before popups.
To be a 90s kid you had to have been a kid in the 90s, not a baby. I’m a 80s baby, and a 90s kid.
Yea I was probably too young to remember anything of the 90’s. Probably my earliest memory that feels like a part of my “kidhood” is being annoyed that 9/11 interrupted my morning cartoons. Even then I wouldn’t consider that part of my core childhood memories. But who knows, maybe there are people with vivid memories of themselves living their best life as a 5yo in 1999.
Shiiiit. I lost my virginity in '91, and I know I’m a “90s kid”.
edit: typo
My favorite I’ve heard is a friend made the distinction of Elder Millennial: Old enough to remember life pre-internet, young enough to still be relevant.
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.
exposed to tech early enough to learn it.
translation: playing doom instead of doing schoolwork.
Fun story. I took Latin the first year my school offered it as a second language, and they were required to offer any language a minimum of 3 years for the students who started it because it 3 years was required for some diploma programs.
After the first year, the teacher quit. So for the second year they hired a new guy who they were very excited about. He used to teach Latin on a live satellite broadcast to high schools and colleges, which was a huge deal to have accomplished in the 90s.
Well, it turned out he basically read scripts and has assistants give him answers when students called in questions to the hotline, and he didn’t actually know how to teach Latin.
But the class was taught in a computer lab because some of the other Language classes has software for exercises.
And that’s how I spent the entirety of Latin II playing Starcraft.
Hey HEY! Don’t you fucking diss doom. I cut my software design teeth making custom WADs.
As someone working at a college–yup. A lot of students don’t know how to log out, or find save files. Where would they have learned it, though? You never log out of mobile devices.
Ooh, remember the cordless landline phones? I’d always see how far from home I could walk before they’d cut out
My first telephone was a rotary. More than once I didn’t call pizza Hut because it had 3 0’s at the end.
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?
I have no idea lmao. I think the last half is there for a self confidence boost, since it’s subjective.
Edit: Maybe once you give up on slang from new generations?
If this one wasn’t so shit at creating new slang, maybe it wouldn’t be so fuckin’ easy to give up on it?
ah, shit.
Me: I try not to gatekeep.
Also me: ☝🏼 (see meme)
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”.
90s kids got some pretty unique stuff. We were around pre and post internet. We lived through the yo-yo resurgence. We had the absolute golden years of American kids cartoons. We grew up as kids without cell phones, but were still young enough to be tech literate. Last generation that grew up with “come home when the street lights come on”, and we remember 9/11.
American “kids” cartoons? Pfft. Have you already forgotten about Liquid Television? That shit was so clearly by stoners, for stoners that even MTV knew it wouldn’t fly in any other time slot than post-midnight, but maaan was it glorious! Sifl & Ollie, Ren & Stimpy, Aeon Flux, The Maxx, Big Head, and so much more! (fuck Beavis & Butthead, the inbred cousin that made scrote-cheese like Howard Stern marketable? Hard pass.)
Being born in '85, I guarantee I have more vivid memories of the 90’s than someone born in '95.
I think that’s only because you had more time to accumulate 90s memoribilia. If they had siblings born earlier, they would have been born into 90s hand-me-downs, molded by it.
I mean what parent would buy a tamagotchi when it was culturally relevant for a 3 year old unless they were swimming in cash. But they’d buy one for an 8 yo and the 3 yo would grow up with it.
