What Gen(eration) am I?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Aquarians, May 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM.

  1. I'm born at the end of Generation X and start of Millennials or Generation Y.

    * Generation X: Born 1965–1980
    * Millennials: Born 1981–1996

    I have very little in common with either people born in 1965 and those born in 1995. End of 70s, having lived through the computing/electronics revolution of the 80s and exponential development of computing / electronics in the 90s, that's something you don't see today anymore.

    Add that to being born in communist Eastern Europe, where the idea of "chocolate" was this thing which as a kid I would call polenta ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenta ) because in all fairness, it was a slightly sweeter version of it:

    chockolate.jpeg

    I knew from forbidden imports about the Milka chocolate, which was like something I got on Christmas. I didn't know people were chewing on Milka and not sucking them like candies (to last longer), that's something I found much later.

    But nothing prepared me for the encounter in the early 90's, after the fall of the communist regime, with a bar of Mars candy:
    mars.jpg

    Like with computers and the leap from Z80 CPU based machines to x86, then 286, 386, 486, Pentium, 3dFX Voodoo, Nvidia, mobile phones, smartphones.

    It was a generational leap. We don't get those today. I guess the small hanging fruit of advancements has been picked.
     
  2. 2rosy

    2rosy

    I'd say you're a millenial. Speaking of communist countries, I remember in '82 or '83 there's a large youth soccer tournament in europe and a player from a Polish team defected resulting in all teams from communist countries to lock down.