Sounds like you’re a GenXer on the cusp of Boomer, with Jupiter rising in the house of Hipster.
ETA: Unless you have a man-bun. Then we have to start over.
I wouldn’t say that. I’m not saying it’s important which generation you belong to, but certainly there are shared experiences among time periods that do effect and shape a population. My kids are growing up always having known the internet and the type of technology where if you want something now, you can have it. Want a movie? Just click on a button. Want a song? Ask Alexa. Looking for an obscure spice? Order it online. Their childhood and experiences will be quite different than mine, and I expect this to affect their personalities and how they process and see the world, and what they expect of it. Clearly, on an individual to individual basis this will vary a lot.
I don’t feel most of my friends fit the Gen X stereotype, but we certainly, as a group, do have a lot of generational traits in common, given our shared experiences and upbringings.
Generation X is considered to be from 1965 to 1980. Millenials 1981 to 1995. Generation Z (Gen Z or Zoomers) from 1996 to 2012. The next generation 2013 til now.
I was born in 1975 and am member of Generation X. If someone asked I would describe myself as a 80s GenXer because the vast majority of my childhood was immersed in 80s pop culture.
My kids were born 94,95,97 and they are what i think of for your typical millennial.
If your parents were of age to serve in WWII you’re a Boomer. If your parents are Boomers you’re Gen X.
My grandparents were born in 1890 and 1900, and they were quite formative for me – is there a name for their generation? Is there a description of their archetype?
How about Great Grandfather Napier, whom I never met but whose influence on the family was so keenly felt – born in 1849, he might fit into what named generation?
I don’t think any generations before the 20th century have ever been named.
A Wikipedia article suggests that the cohort/generation born between 1883 and 1900 (that is, the cohort which fought WWI, in the same way that the Greatest Generation fought WWII) is sometimes referred to as the Lost Generation.
Although the term comes from Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises (and was apparently coined by Gertrude Stein), I’m not sure how often it was actually used, contemporarily, to refer to members of that generation.
Also depends on geolocation, mindset, culture, education, etc, not just age span. But you know that. Being Xgen myself, I always considered to be a bit more tech and mind “progressive” so my mindset can nicely mingle up to late millennials, but it stops there. I hate modern social media. And youths trespassing my lawn.
Strauss and Howe name their generations back to the 1400s. That said, I think “Lost Generation” is the last one I remember seeing outside of a Strauss & Howe context.
Fair enough. I always associated that term with Britain and maybe France, rather than the US. They were in the war longer and suffered lots more casualties and a larger percentage of their young men suffered shell shock.
Strauss and Howe, whose 1991 book “Generations” is the basis for most of this stuff, have named generations going back to 15th century England
The generations appear in cycles of four (a Saeculum)—High/Prophet/Idealist, Awakening/Nomad/Reactive, Unraveling/Hero/Civic, and Crisis/Artist/Adaptive.
American independence starts approximately at the Revolutionary Saeculum.
Revolutionary Saeculum
Awakening Generation (prophet), 1701-1723
Liberty Generation (nomad), 1724-1741
Republican Generation (hero), 1742-1766
Compromise Generation (artist), 1767-1791
Civil War Saeculum
Transcendental Generation (prophet), 1792-1821
Gilded Generation (nomad), 1822-1842
(Hero generation skipped)
Progressive Generation (artist), 1843-1859
Great Power Saeculum
Missionary Generation (prophet), 1860-1882
Lost Generation (nomad), 1883-1900
G.I. Generation (hero), 1901-1924
Silent Generation (artist), 1925-1942
Millennial Saeculum
Baby Boom Generation (prophet), 1943-1960
13th Generation (Gen X) (nomad), 1961-1981
Millennial Generation (Gen Y) (hero), 1982-2004
Homeland Generation (Gen Z) (artist), 2005-
This stuff is all interesting but overall it’s just another kind of astrology.
True but an analogous things can be said about Viet Nam and the draft which is one of the defining characteristics of Boomers in the US. (Of course WWI was orders of magnitude worse than Viet Nam).
What if your parents were kids during WWII?
Then you are like me, most likely Tweener/Generation Jones. They are sometimes called the Notch between Boomers and Greatest Generation. I don’t recall the details anymore but it has to do with an unfavorable way that their Social Security was calculated which could have been undone.
See post No. 52
Unless your parents were older. My Dad was a kid in WWII but I was born in 1975, definitely generation X. You’d have to define it by the typical age of parents in your cohort rather than your actual parents’ ages.
Of course. That’s why I said “most likely”. There are all kinds of outliers.
<nitpick>CD and later DVD drives were Drive D, while C Drive was/is the (primary) hard disk.</nitpick> 
I also don’t remember the B drive being explicitly 3.5 inch. Maybe if you had two drives, one 5.25 and another 3.5, then the 5.25 would be A and the second would be B, but by the times I was using PCs and not Commodores regularly, I swear all my 3.5" drives were A. I assume this is also something you could set in the BIOS maybe? It’s been so long…