Just found out about Xennials, GenX-Millennials, also known as the Oregon Trail Generation and Generation Catalano, demographic on the pod (not sure which one tbh) and while I'm definitely not one, I do know people who are, and it is a bit of an obscure "generation" as meaningless as a lot of those labels are.
They typically were around and active when personal computers and the internet as we know it starting coming up, but they also remember a time when things were very much still analog as well. That has to be a weirder one cause they likely don't ID with both GenX and all the shit millennials grew up watching or doing.
Grew up with landlines, but I also remember getting on AOL in high school with all those free discs they sent out. And lots of think pieces about the internet, none of which predicted exactly how much of a shithole it would become!
And I definitely played Oregon Trail on grade school computers, as well as C&C: Red Alert and Warcraft 2 on high school computers.
Even just like 15 years ago the internet was insane. Message boards sucked in a lot of ways and in others were quite good. Also there was clearnet drug sites operating like crazy and were super legit lol
Honestly, I think watching in real time as platforms like Facebook and Twitter grimly foreclosed on the creative and experimental possibilities of the early internet was a large factor in my radicalization.
Such a good point. Myspace had people learning to code with html. Even people who would copy and paste pre-built pages/designs for their myspace could figure out how to edit out or in certain things since html is incredibly accessible to a curious mind.
DO NOT miss the auto-playing music though. Also it sucked major ass when the RIAA decided they're gonna ruin people's pages because they used a 32kbit quadrupled compressed song that sounded like garbage and striked em down.
There's also the less reported zennial which had social media since they were children, but it was Facebook and Twitter instead of Snapchat and Tik tok.
oh probably then yeah. I hated so much of what was in those millennial start pack memes, and recorded stuff off the radio with cassettes but as soon as cds came around and napster i was on it making mix cds for $5 for people lol
Just found out about Xennials, GenX-Millennials, also known as the Oregon Trail Generation and Generation Catalano, demographic on the pod (not sure which one tbh) and while I'm definitely not one, I do know people who are, and it is a bit of an obscure "generation" as meaningless as a lot of those labels are.
They typically were around and active when personal computers and the internet as we know it starting coming up, but they also remember a time when things were very much still analog as well. That has to be a weirder one cause they likely don't ID with both GenX and all the shit millennials grew up watching or doing.
Hey, it's me!
Grew up with landlines, but I also remember getting on AOL in high school with all those free discs they sent out. And lots of think pieces about the internet, none of which predicted exactly how much of a shithole it would become!
And I definitely played Oregon Trail on grade school computers, as well as C&C: Red Alert and Warcraft 2 on high school computers.
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It is weird. Too young for Gen X culture, too old for stuff like Harry Potter. Growing up alongside the internet, however, was indescribably cool.
Even just like 15 years ago the internet was insane. Message boards sucked in a lot of ways and in others were quite good. Also there was clearnet drug sites operating like crazy and were super legit lol
Honestly, I think watching in real time as platforms like Facebook and Twitter grimly foreclosed on the creative and experimental possibilities of the early internet was a large factor in my radicalization.
Such a good point. Myspace had people learning to code with html. Even people who would copy and paste pre-built pages/designs for their myspace could figure out how to edit out or in certain things since html is incredibly accessible to a curious mind.
DO NOT miss the auto-playing music though. Also it sucked major ass when the RIAA decided they're gonna ruin people's pages because they used a 32kbit quadrupled compressed song that sounded like garbage and striked em down.
I miss forcing people to listen to Evanescence on my neopets shop tbh.
thinking im hardcore cause i headbang alone in my room to linkin park
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lmao myspace was an utter abomination.
Listening to Machinae Supremacy while quoting Mentor's Last Words and Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.
And being very, very angry about Horse Armor.
There's also the less reported zennial which had social media since they were children, but it was Facebook and Twitter instead of Snapchat and Tik tok.
that's me then but add in MySpace instead of Facebook because for a time FB was college/student .edu emails only who could register.
Haha same here, I think that's just millennial, I'm thinking like, people who had Myspace at 11 years old though.
oh probably then yeah. I hated so much of what was in those millennial start pack memes, and recorded stuff off the radio with cassettes but as soon as cds came around and napster i was on it making mix cds for $5 for people lol
I'm 30 but this sounds like me because my elementary school had 10 year old computers in 1997 and I didn't get internet in my house until I was 13
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