What generation are you?

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I'm at the tail end of the Baby Boomers.....some people call later Baby Boomers "Generation Jones."

My own personal belief (within a US context): If one remembers the Vietnam War well, that person probably is a Boomer.

If one doesn't remember the Vietnam War well, that person probably is a Generation X-er.

Ray Davies wrote the song, Lola. That got things moving slowly in the right direction.

I'm a Gen-X. The John Hughes generation. The best generation.

I remember hearing on the radio that the Vietnam War ended. But I don't remember the war itself.

I'm not entirely sure & cant vote. I was born in 1982 & there is some debate as to when Gen X ends & Millennial begins. Some things say that Gen X ends at the end of the 70s & Millennial begins at the begging of the 80s which would mean that I'm an early Millennial. Others say that Gen X ends in the early part of the 80s & that Millennial starts in the earlyish part of the 80s which would mean that I'm at the very end of Gen X. Wikipedia has a term for people in the middle of that confusion called, Xennials~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

I always thought I was Gen X but as I was born before 1964 that makes me a baby Boomer.

I'm part of generation x.

And as someone who grew up in the 1980s, this was - of course - the defining moment of my entire generation:

Just looked it up and I fall at the start of the "Millennials". According to the Cambridge online dictionary "Millennials have grown up with the internet and can't imagine a world without it." I was in my mid-teens before I had the chance to get on the internet regularly and can very much remember and imagine a world without it.

My generation is stuck between 'Baby Boomers' and 'Generation X.'

Xenial. Too young for X, too old for Millennial.

Last generation to have an analog childhood; first to have a digital adulthood. All generations before came into adulthood in a pre-computerized world. All generations after, including the average Millennial as defined, seemingly had computers and Internet since childhood.

I find it interesting that the “millennial ” generation ends before the start of the millennium and when people talk about millenials, they’re usually actually talking about the generation after (and very different from) mine. Which is why I was surprised when I looked the dates up.

I also am a millennial!

I started using the internet when I was 11 and pretty much immediately let it take over my life.

Technically a millennial, on the border with Gen Z.

My parents didn't have a computer with internet until after I graduated high-school in 2001. They were worried about me looking at porn & getting into trouble. I became addicted to the net & porn after we got it. We only had dial-up for like a year or year & a half because cable & DSL were not available in our area yet. A lot of my classmates had cable or DSL though. I lived a bit further away in a more rural area. Before that I only ever used the net at high-school for doing research projects or when I was required to take a Computer Applications class in 10th grade. I struggled majorly in that class because every one of my classmates had internet at home & had much more of a background than me. Thankfully my teacher held me to lower standards due to the learning curve & my dyslexia & other related learning issues. I went to the class after school some so I would have much needed extra time to finish things. My 1st report card was a D in there, then C, then B, & then I actually got an A for my last 9 weeks. That was the only A I ever got on a report card before my senior year except for PE.

I relate to Gen-X alot more than Millennial or even Xenial probably partly due to me getting internet later.

A lot of the younger Millennials had fully-functioning Internet since elementary school. What you're describing sounds like some of your classmates started getting Internet connections in high school. But I don't think anyone our age had Internet in grade school, and the Internet looked nothing like it does now.

In fact, all of the staples: Youtube, Wikipedia, Facebook, etc. didn't come around until we were in our 20s. I'm talking about kids who had guaranteed Internet of the people well before puberty.