>grow up with VHS, CRTs, and pre-smartphone life>don’t have an iPad from age 4>don’t get your attention span obliterated by TikTok before turning 18
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>>23638503I'm a mid 90s millennial and I really enjoyed growing up without smart phones. Had a real childhood playing soccer and hockey with my friends. We had technology like brick/flip phones, computers (although in my household we did not have computer/internet until well into the 2000s), video games like game cube or nintendo SP. Technology was there but it did not permeate everyday life. Nowadays, technology dominates our lives and the result is catastrophic.
>>23638503Thats too late. Anybody born in that range missed the boat. 2005-10 fags that claim the 90s was their era. It wasnt, you didnt live it. I was fucking posting on 4chan in 2005
>>23638503Ps2 was the start of the anti-gameplay moviegame California crap that still plagues the industry. NES-Genesis-SNES were the real golden years.
>>23638503People born late 70s/early 80s. Likely had (or had experience with) all the old formats while experiencing the new ones first hand.
>>23638503it's contingent upon the family. i was born in 81. just between myself and my best friend in school we had totally different lives.if i wanted to hear grunge music, watch mtv, hear people say swear words, see someone smoke cigarettes, and generally experience peak normie 90s bullshit i went to my friends house. otherwise my life growing up was no different than a kid in like the fucking 1880s. we had no cable, no rock music, no video games, i split firewood, no sweet sugary cereals, candy, or soda. if a family is a based and redpilled (like mine was) the generational cohort is irrelevant.
>>23638508Also the most tech literate generation. Zoomers are as tech illiterate as boomers.
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>>23638503Probably late millennials (1993-1996). I'm early Gen Z and I'm barely old enough to have actively experienced and used video rentals, phone booths, MP3-Players, cassette tapes, Windows XP, CRTs, dumbphones and stuff like that in my pre-teen years, and a lot of that is due to growing up poor, which was also the reason I had to be content with a PS2 for longer than I'd have liked. I was also barely old enough to have experienced the "old" internet, if you can even call the late 2000s internet that. I highly doubt anyone born after 2001 can even really remember pre-smartphone life or the analog era, and even most 1997-2001 zoomers probably never really engaged with that era unless they had millennial siblings or grew up poor, and even then the bulk of their adolescence was spent in a time where smartphones and social media were ubiquitous, by around 2012-2013 it was literally impossible to have a social live without a smartphone as a teen.
>>23638504This actually, just old enough to enjoy everything good. By the time zillenals were aging out the horrible shit began to flood everything. Best years of COD, Halo, playing MP games, other great titles like GOW, we actually got oblivion and Skyrim and fallout 3 and 4 while people today get updates to ESO. We got the years of good assassins creed games. Movies were still good, still worth going to the theater for, big blockbustersMusic was actually White, you had sad boy emo, white suburbs punk rock, stomp clap hey, etc Everything was pretty peak, just the beginning of smart phones and apps.
>>23638508i'm a millennial boomer and i feel like it was the best of both worlds.there was enough tech innovation to be cool and exciting but not domineering or homogenized. videogames were fun but limited so you still spent a lot of time outside fucking around.the internet was new and something that basically only existed in your kitchen or the library.
>>23638503I was in my late teens burning my artwork on CDRoms. It was pretty Kino. I miss when tech was about being creative instead of corporate. Carrying those TVs around sucked.
>>23638508We knew how to fix computers because our parents sure didn't. If you didn't learn you couldn't pirate your games / software.
>>23638504>>23638503Gen z didn't start until 2001, dumbass.For the exact reasons you listed.
1991-1998 had the best mix.Old enough to grow up with 2D 16-bit games and see the transition to 3D and its immense graphical improvement in a very, very short time, but young enough to have niggers everywhere which discouraged playing outside.Old enough for good music, but young enough to effortlessly adapt to smartphones.Old enough to see hope, and young enough to be raised in despair.
>>23638503what a stupid topic of discussion.. this could be said about every generation before late millenials/early gen z
>>23638503Late millennials had it better
>>23638512Late millennials were the last age cohort that got to spend all of their formative years in a world that wasn't yet fully homogenized and artificial. Youth subcultures, mall culture, social interactions without everyone glued to a phone, going out, having fun and making a fool of yourself without fear of a phone camera recording and immortalizing every embarrassing moment. All of this was taken for granted by every living generation before Gen Z, the oldest of us are cursed to long for a time we vaguely remember but never got to fully experience.
>>23638503Let's put this obvious time wasting bait thread to bed. It's late GenX/Xennials and the any other answer is homosexual cope.To be even more specific its the people born between 1974-1981 periodt!We experienced the world tech revolution with our own eyes. Like the people before us who where there when tv literally switched from black and white to color mid-show.>We went from banana seat bikes to bmx. >We went from 8mm home movies on film to blu-ray.>We went from records to mini-disc.>We went from CalecoVision to PS3>We went from Chevy Nova's to CyberTrucks>We went from forest porn to Xnxx>We went from 5 tv stations to having every known movie and show ever made, just a few clicks away.>We went from class field trips to the computer lab to computers in our pockets.There is no fucking competing with late GenX when it comes to our retro/modern mix. Even the trendy clothes we wore were better than any shit today. Starter jackets, IOU, Reebok Pumps, Jordans, Hyper Color. It's sad that this question even comes up at all. And right at the moment when tech went into overdrive we had jobs that let us afford to experience it all, and at a relatively young age where we could still enjoy it.We're more proficient with tech but at the same time less addicted to it. We can also interact with people in public without going into an apoplectic break down. We can talk to a receptionist on the phone and make an appointment without needing a Xanax. We can watch a movie or hang out with our friends without needing to have our phones in our hands the entire time.
