Poll to sample CP members by generation

[TambaBerry]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Yeah - I still feel like there's a small cutout from about 1975 through 1985 who grew up without computers and actually remember not having them.

If you're born in 86 or so, you had computers in school from Kindergarten forward. You were using the internet in elementary school.

They had a name attached to that period for a bit but it's largely been abandoned.

I was born in 87, first computer lab i remember was in middle school that had internet access. I remember having one computer in our classroom that we played things like oregon trail and typing games on.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by TambaBerry

I was born in 87, first computer lab i remember was in middle school that had internet access. I remember having one computer in our classroom that we played things like oregon trail and typing games on.

Yeah, the Oregon Trail generation. Same. We grew up on VHS and Goosbumps books and watched as we transitioned from the Sony Walkman to the Sony Discman.

We also went from the O.G Nintendo and this bad ass new technology, the Sega CD and the first Playstation.

Then it was giga-pets for the girls, and finally....the Nokia cell phone took over in our teen years....with those ****ing Nokia phone case and screen protector kiosks around every corner at the mall. Stupid egg shaped phone....and everyone had one. We pretty much rolled right on through pagers.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by ModSocks

Yeah, the Oregon Trail generation. Same. We grew up on VHS and Goosbumps books and watched as we transitioned from the Sony Walkman to the Sony Discman.

We also went from the O.G Nintendo and this bad ass new technology, the Sega CD and the first Playstation.

Then it was giga-pets for the girls, and finally....the Nokia cell phone took over in our teen years....with those ****ing Nokia phone case and screen protector kiosks around every corner at the mall. Stupid egg shaped phone....and everyone had one. We pretty much rolled right on through pagers.

Sega CD - the best example of a good idea that was poorly executed you'll ever see.

I traded a pair of Roller Blades to a neighbor kid for one of those and a couple of games. I got took (and the roller blades were shit; bearings were shot).

It was like they came up with the idea and then just never bothered making games that were actually worth playing on it. Got it dumped off on some other kid for Joe Montana Football and NHL '93 and considered it a massive win.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by TambaBerry

I was born in 87, first computer lab i remember was in middle school that had internet access. I remember having one computer in our classroom that we played things like oregon trail and typing games on.

81 -- my first memory of computers is having a 286 with DOS that was essentially a glorified word processor at home. At school I'd say 2nd or 3rd grade (so 89/90) where we played Carmen San Diego. But that wasn't in my day to day classroom - that was in Bridges on Tuesdays; only about 8-10 of us in that class.

Day to day classroom use wasn't until middle school. My handwriting was bad enough that if I could type an assignment, I would - that was 4th or 5th grade with our little dot matrix printer at home (and tearing off the little strips on the side then making snakes out of them) and that was certainly out of the ordinary from my classmates. That would've been probably around 1992.

Though like you, we did have a couple 'computer lab' days per week with stuff like Oregon Trail or various reading/math games for an hour or two a couple times/wk.

But otherwise we were still using those transparencies and chalkboards for lessons. That seemed to have changed up quite a bit from 1990 through about 1994. My sister was born in '86 and remembers computer use being far more pervasive - at least in the Park Hill school district.

Fall of 1993 was middle school (I'm pretty sure) because we built our new place during the '93 floods and that's when I moved schools to start Middle School (do NOT do that to your kids; Middle Schoolers are evil enough when they know you; they're goddamn demons when they don't). So for me, daily computer use at school and ready internet access was a thing in the fall of '93.

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Yeah - I still feel like there's a small cutout from about 1975 through 1985 who grew up without computers and actually remember not having them.

If you're born in 86 or so, you had computers in school from Kindergarten forward. You were using the internet in elementary school.

They had a name attached to that period for a bit but it's largely been abandoned.

My first memory of computers was when I was in elementary school and we would go to the computer lab. We had a bunch with the green monitors and one "color" one that had a purple screen. I only ever remember playing Oregon Trail on it. I was born in 1977, so I remember life with and without them.

[TambaBerry]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I'm not sure I identify with the term Elder Millennial, but I just barely fit into the common definition of Millenial. I feel like Oregon Trail Generation fits me most accurately.

I prefer pre internet millenial and post internet millenial, feel like there is a big difference in the two

[dmahurin]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I'm not sure I identify with the term Elder Millennial, but I just barely fit into the common definition of Millenial. I feel like Oregon Trail Generation fits me most accurately.

Same.

[Holladay]

Agreed. The poll should be Pre-Social Media and Post. That would be definitive.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Holladay

Agreed. The poll should be Pre-Social Media and Post. That would be definitive.

agreed. With a disclaimer. DOS(an earliest non-mainframe language) was invented right after WWII. The numbering system for the internet around the same time. Although Alan Turing cracked the Germans enigma code and saved 14 million lives using the first card system. His thanks for all that…… since he was gay he had to be chemically casturated. True story.

I was in I.T. early. Very few were really using a home computer due to the cost. And the internet and surfing was not a part of our culture until broadband became more widely available.

Example cloud computing. AWS wasn’t even available til 2006. Wasn’t widely adopted until 2009. Microsoft’s cloud, Azure, came out in 2012 but it was 2015/2016 when it started to get widely used by business.

I see posts that say Window's 95 was the turning point. It was a lot cheaper than pc’s in that era and it started the home computing revolution but widely used by Americans didn’t start until home units went below $1000.

[Dadkc]

Boomer here


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[Tribal Warfare]

1981 according to the poll the 1st year of the Millennials

[ChiefsFan63]

Part of the last of the boomers. I have never identified with that generation. By that definition I am in the same generation as my mom. I don't think so Tim.

[Bob Dole]

Barely a Boomer, whom which I’ve never identified.

Now get off my lawn.

[Coochie liquor]

Gen X gonna give it to ya!!