Joke of the day

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

I'm not sure what generation I am.

I was born in '85 and grew up in the '90s.

I'm also not sure if I'm a millenial or somewhere in between.

Well, looks like I'm a millenial then.

[Anianna]

I'm not sure what generation I am.

I was born in '85 and grew up in the '90s.

I'm also not sure if I'm a millenial or somewhere in between.

Well, looks like I'm a millenial then.

Ah, another Boomer nemesis.

I'd never heard GenX referred to as "baby busters".  Also, I thought our life paradigm was "Ugh, gag me with a spoon". 

[RickOShea]

[mzmc]

Some people say the main difference between Millenials and Gen Z is that the former were born into an analog world, and grew into a digital one, while the later never new anything but the internet.

I think a better distinction would be to go by mental health. Boomers alcoholism, Gen X opioid abuse, Milleninals depression, Gen Y anxiety.

[NT2C]

Some people say the main difference between Millenials and Gen Z is that the former were born into an analog world, and grew into a digital one, while the later never new anything but the internet.

I think a better distinction would be to go by mental health. Boomers alcoholism, Gen X opioid abuse, Milleninals depression, Gen Y anxiety.

Feared diseases would work too.

Builders, Polio; Boomers, Measles; Gen X, STDs; Millenials, AIDS; Gen Z, Swine Flu; Gen Alpha, Avian Flu/COVID; Gen Bravo, Monkey Pox

[RickOShea]

[SCBrian]

Some people say the main difference between Millenials and Gen Z is that the former were born into an analog world, and grew into a digital one, while the later never new anything but the internet.

Thats a bad quote as most millennials (per THIS chart) would have been born digital. Even the advent of AOL was early 90's. The Gen X is mostly credited with that role Ana->Dig.   

[NapalmMan67]

I'm not sure what generation I am.
I was born in '85 and grew up in the '90s.
I'm also not sure if I'm a millenial or somewhere in between.

Gen Y.

https://www.kasasa.com/exchange/articles/generations/gen-x-gen-y-gen-z#:~:text=Gen%20Y%3A%20Gen%20Y%2C%20or,72.1%20million%20in%20the%20U.S.)




Ooops... ETA-  I should read all the posts before quoting a page or two prior.

[CG]

Some people say the main difference between Millenials and Gen Z is that the former were born into an analog world, and grew into a digital one, while the later never new anything but the internet.

Thats a bad quote as most millennials (per THIS chart) would have been born digital. Even the advent of AOL was early 90's. The Gen X is mostly credited with that role Ana->Dig. 

I was born in 1982.  We had computer labs at school by 4th grade.  Might have been earlier, but that's when I remember Oregon Trail and Logos the Turtle.  I was raised upper middle class and the first computer at home I remember was a Commodore 64 that we plugged cartridges in for different programs - I remember a typing game with flowers, not sure if we had any others (that might be why I can probably type faster than I can talk, and those of you who have heard me talk know why that's terrifying).  Older brother got his own PC after he deleted 6 months of cash from Mom's Quicken program.  Starting in elementary school, Mom tried to bribe me with a Super NES if I'd stop biting my nails - never did get that, but she did buy a Wii for the kiddos at some point.

I think I got my PC in junior high.  Went to college with a tower, but by the time I'd changed schools 2 years later, I had a laptop.  I had friends in college who didn't have computers or cell phones (errrr—after the first 2 years.  I kinda almost flunked out of expensive private college first, so practically everybody there had stuff).  They weren't something you couldn't live without at that point.  Pretty certain I had several friends using my computer once I was at a "regular" university.  I think that quote may be talking more about the EXPECTATIONS that you have the technology, not necessarily whether each individual had it.

[RickOShea]

[Mr. E. Monkey]

Oregon Trail and Logos the Turtle

I'm just a few years older than you ('79), and I remember those well.  You're the first person I've seen mention Logos the Turtle in ages...I was beginning to wonder.

Do you remember Number Munchers, by any chance?  

[Mr. E. Monkey]

[SCBrian]

Oregon Trail and Logos the Turtle

I'm just a few years older than you ('79), and I remember those well.  You're the first person I've seen mention Logos the Turtle in ages...I was beginning to wonder.

Do you remember Number Munchers, by any chance? 

Thank me later...  
https://turtleacademy.com/playground

My computer family tree (if you will) started with a Ti-99/4a, timex sinclar, then started the commodore(64) tandy, x86 etc. route.  I had exposure to apple and the god awful monochrome screen in my late elementary years. Mid 80's I was connecting to BBS's like compuserve, prodigy and by the late 80's running a BBS myself and watching the baud rates move exponentially faster.  I can still determine a baud rate by tones. 

tl:dr: Put simply, Millennials - were born into a digital age.  Gen X bushwacked their way from swatch watches to LED's.   

You want to feel REALLY old...  It's what happens when you find someone who CREATED some of the programs you used... 
 

[Anianna]

I had that!  Kitchen cart, Atari, old TV.  That was the shit!

Also, my first PC was a Commodore64.

[EBuff75]

Oregon Trail and Logos the Turtle

I'm just a few years older than you ('79), and I remember those well.  You're the first person I've seen mention Logos the Turtle in ages...I was beginning to wonder.

Do you remember Number Munchers, by any chance? 

Thank me later...  
https://turtleacademy.com/playground

My computer family tree (if you will) started with a Ti-99/4a, timex sinclar, then started the commodore(64) tandy, x86 etc. route.  I had exposure to apple and the god awful monochrome screen in my late elementary years. Mid 80's I was connecting to BBS's like compuserve, prodigy and by the late 80's running a BBS myself and watching the baud rates move exponentially faster.  I can still determine a baud rate by tones. 

tl:dr: Put simply, Millennials - were born into a digital age.  Gen X bushwacked their way from swatch watches to LED's.   

You want to feel REALLY old...  It's what happens when you find someone who CREATED some of the programs you used... 

Having flashbacks here!  Our first computer was a TRS-80 with no media storage of any kind.  If you wanted it to do something, you programmed it and then left it turned on, since it would be gone if you turned it off.  Went from that to a Tandy-1000, then a Gateway 386 in 1989 (I got the Tandy at that point).  It wasn't until we'd had the Gateway for a few years that we finally got a modem, back in the era of AOL ("You've got mail!"). 

But a friend of mine had a 1200-baud modem for his Commodore 128 that we used to surf BBS sites.  Mainly they were local (because he couldn't afford to pay long-distance rates), but there were a few that used 800# that we got on as well.  He even ran his own for a while, using a 3.5" floppy, a 5.25" floppy, and a tape drive, hooked up to that Commodore! 

Our schools got quite a bit of money from a local company, so we had a computer lab at my elementary school somewhere around 1983-4 and by 1985 we had a computer in every classroom - all of them Apple IIe or clones (Ace?  Franklin?  Something like that).  I remember one of the 6th grade teachers bringing in his personal computer (it might have been an Atari) and programming it to count up to 1 million.  That took several days of "10 x = 1, 20 PRINT x, 30 x = x + 1, 40 IF x = 1000000 THEN GOTO 60, 50 GOTO 20, 60 PRINT "1 Million!", 60 END" (or something along those lines - I think he had a timer function built into it as well) to complete in BASIC.

The middle school used the most Frankensteined Apple IIe that I've ever seen - a huge housing on it for a fan so that it could run all day (Apples weren't meant for that), a tangle of cords and hardware for laser scanning barcodes, and a 10Mb hard drive that was probably two feet long, a foot wide, and six inches tall!  For 10Mb!

By high school the library had some IBM 386SX computers with CD-ROM drives that you could use to look up magazine articles, or access digital encyclopedias.  I took a programming class in 1991 or 1992 in a classroom with a bunch of networked IBM PS/2 computers with RGB monitors.  That same friend with the Commodore wrote an email program for them the next year that allowed everyone in the class to send messages to each other.  Heck, back in the 80s another friend of mine started reverse-engineering Point-of-Sale systems for local businesses and doing custom programming for them (he also ran his own BBS for a while). 

When I went off to college in 1993, that's when I got my own computer (a 386DX full-sized tower which weighed 66lbs).  Unfortunately, the college wasn't networked in the dorm rooms for a few years yet, so I still had to live with a 2400-baud modem.  Fortunately, the early internet didn't require nearly the bandwidth that it does today!  I've still got a Yahoo email account which dates back to the mid-90s.

A few years ago I had to actually find pictures to convince one of my younger coworkers that I'd once had a Compaq laptop for work that had a trackball built onto the side of the screen (with the buttons on the back of the laptop lid). Kids these days! 

[NT2C]

Oregon Trail and Logos the Turtle

I'm just a few years older than you ('79), and I remember those well.  You're the first person I've seen mention Logos the Turtle in ages...I was beginning to wonder.

Do you remember Number Munchers, by any chance? 

Thank me later...  
https://turtleacademy.com/playground

My computer family tree (if you will) started with a Ti-99/4a, timex sinclar, then started the commodore(64) tandy, x86 etc. route.  I had exposure to apple and the god awful monochrome screen in my late elementary years. Mid 80's I was connecting to BBS's like compuserve, prodigy and by the late 80's running a BBS myself and watching the baud rates move exponentially faster.  I can still determine a baud rate by tones. 

tl:dr: Put simply, Millennials - were born into a digital age.  Gen X bushwacked their way from swatch watches to LED's.   

You want to feel REALLY old...  It's what happens when you find someone who CREATED some of the programs you used... 
 

I resemble that remark... 

[echo83]

I had this exact same setup...on a black and white TV. My parents would come home and touch the back to see if it was still hot. If it was, they knew we were playing it after bedtime. It was short-lived. 

[Crosscut]

[RickOShea]

[Crosscut]

I'm not sure what generation I am.

I was born in '85 and grew up in the '90s.

I'm also not sure if I'm a millenial or somewhere in between.

Well, looks like I'm a millenial then.

Ah, another Boomer nemesis.

I'd never heard GenX referred to as "baby busters".  Also, I thought our life paradigm was "Ugh, gag me with a spoon". 

Kids today are so coddled... https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/dad-invents-flamethrower-for-kids-to-play-with-at-home/

When I was young (first of the Gen X'ers) we kids had to build our own flamethrowers with a Scripto lighter and a can of starting fluid.