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I love that name but isn't it just another name for Gen X?

To my ear, it's a subset of Gen X, and definitely doesn't encompass all of Gen X culture.

It's approximately 1978 though '82. Basically the last generation that has a living memory of the before time, but grew up riding the crest of the wave of everything that happened over the past 30 years, technologically.

Or, people who played Oregon Trail on Macs and Commodore 64s in grade school.

Apple ][, bah

The dates don't match the description; from the (last, more specific) description, you'd need to drop back at least about 5, maybe closer to 10, years earlier on the start date for that "generation".

Really, just thinking of it as "members of Generation X with an early and lifelong interest in technology" would probably work better than trying to carve it out as a narrower subset of Gen X by age.

Here[1] is (I believe) the originating article.

Meanwhile, the first really popular version of Oregon Trail came out in 1985[2].

Ultimately I just meant it as a jaunty shorthand for the intergenerational window in which I was born. If you were also born then and this does not jive with your experience, it's going to be okay, eventually.

[1] http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/2015/04/oregon-trail-generat... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(video_game...

So, me then. Got it. ;)

I think it's a very useful little note between Gen X and Gen Y, because that 78-82 group isn't quite either in my experience.

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