Pretty tired of “everything from the 20th century is boomer”.
There is a weird tendency for distinctly technical words to leak out and become common outside their original, very specific context. With the meaning warped, of course. Not a technical term, but I guess the most on-topic example here would be ‘hacker’. I guess ‘coding’ works too.
‘Influencer’ would be another. It originally was a term used to describe others, in much the same way as, say, ‘celebrity’ would be; now it’s common to see individuals proudly describing themselves as ‘influencers’. There’s something slightly disturbingly self-analytic about it. Like speaking in the third person.
Anyway… </old man yells at cloud>
(I’m not even old!)
Corpos and propagandists especially love how words can shape thinking. For some time already it's en vogue to label all on-prem systems as legacy, as if repeating it will make it come true.
Oh yes. Which is why it's not so silly to care deeply about how language is used. They are 'just words', but we think (to some extent) in words and we certainly converse in words. Therefore, words are a significant part of what controls societal attitudes.
We didn't ask for these either. Enjoy being part of the game; y'all (boomers) maintained it
Definitely wasn't the silent generation, we all love gram-gram
Name-calling could reduce a renaissance of proven products, or further stoke interest in past-futures.