I’m a millennial. I remember a period pre-internet but I also grew up with it. Dial-up? You mean the song of my childhood? booooo doot doot doot doo doo doo doot doot mee mii douhuhuh wheeehuh
Squarely in the Baby Boomer camp.
It’s such a gamble when you get a face, huh?
The commoner definition of ‘millennials’ is that they’re largely defined by the technology of the time, but one problem with that is it came in at different times in different places. I’m at the start of the millennial cohort, but I didn’t encounter the internet at all until I was about 13, and we didn’t get it at home until I was 16. My friends started getting mobile phones when I was around 15, I didn’t have one until I was 22. My school barely used computers and didn’t even offer any computer qualifications.
We’re supposed to be the first generation that grew up with computers and global communication, that’s supposedly the big change that defined the era. That’s true for friends a bit younger than me, certainly true for those smack in the middle of the generation and maybe true people in other areas my age. It’s not true for me. I grew up with a landline phone, no TV, cassette tapes, never had a games console and didn’t own a computer until I was 25. When we moved house, I wrote letters to my old best friend and we lost touch after a bit because that was too much effort.
It feels a little like being classed as a boomer and being able to remember the end of WW2; I can see the point of the definition, and I can see the big change, but from my perspective the cut off just ain’t in the right place.
There are Gen-Xers in their 50s?
Someone tell me it’s all a dream.
mmm
Exactly the contrary for me. I’m technically Gen X, being born in 1965, but rather identify with boomers. For instance :
The things he lists screams “what kids like/are into nowadays” to me. Because I was about 30 when youngsters were crazy about Nirvana, began to wear nose piercings and such…I’d identify more readily with Led Zeppelin or a beatnik look, even though they properly belong to the generation before mine.
Yes, don’t worry, keep sleeping. We’re all young and beautiful still.
Spanish baby boomers, we peaked in 1968.
One thing I dislike about Spanish newspaper El País under current ownership is that they often translate articles from American newspapers (mainly Huffpost, part of the same editorial group) without giving credit or translating cultural references. Right now they keep doing this with articles about the retirement of “baby boomers”; the corresponding Spanish generations are the children of the war (1935-1940) and of the hunger years (1940-early 1960s).
Baby boomer here, towards the end. Born 1961.
Some early memories as a kid …
[ul]
[li]my mom crying in the kitchen when Bobby was killed (Jun 1968, shortly after Martin Luther King jr was killed in Apr 1968 — what was the world coming to?)[/li][li]Armstrong on the moon (1969) and Apollo 13 (1970)[/li][li]Vietnam and body counts on the nightly news[/li][li]Walter[/li][li]Huntley-Brinkley[/li][li]the TV repairman and TV adjustments for vertical and horizontal[/li][li]Super Bowl VI (Dallas 24 - Miami 3 in Jan 1972), my first Super Bowl in memory; no recollection of Jim O’Brien and the Colts[/li][li]the Perfect Miami Dolphins in 1972 and their 1973 Super Bowl VII (14-7 over Washington [and Garo’s pass!])[/li][li]Secretariat’s Triple Crown (1973) — he was a tremendous machine! What a fantastic introduction to horse racing’s Triple Crown![/li][li]Jimmy and Chris win Wimbledon (1974; and, Jimmy and Chrissie)[/li][li]the headline Nixon Resigns (09 Aug 1974; I delivered that newspaper, The Hartford Courant, that morning)[/li][li]Evel Knievel, and then the Snake River Canyon[/li][li]Arthur Ashe won Wimbledon in 1975[/li][/ul]
Another Gen Xer (1966) who doesn’t think of himself that way. Maybe it was being the youngest, but I identify more with the boomers culturally.
I too never liked the name “Generation Jones”. It implied that we late baby boomers were the ones who started the conspicuous consumption of that era (“keeping up with the Joneses”). It always felt to me like Boomers a few years older than us were the ones who started that crap. The explanation sometimes given was that their consumption habits were formed during the inflationary 1970’s, when it made less sense to save your money and more sense to buy stuff.
Yeah, WWII was over, and only the youngest Boomers remember the Korean War, but we saw it all replayed in movies and television. That waned rapidly in the 60s (with the exception of MASH, but that was really about Vietnam). Our parents had owned the post-war culture but our generation created the future. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go tell some Post-Millennials to get off my lawn.
Well, that’s just mean!
Gen-X (1968).
Smack dab in the middle of the Boomer generation for me. I remember exactly where I was when JKF was shot, when RFK was shot, and when MLK was shot. My youth is apparently defined by assassinations. 
I am 29 – I have been 29 for longer than I spent getting to 29. But I feel like 12. I span the generations. I guess that makes me a BooZer.
I’m a late Baby Boomer, born in 1962. I’ve said before that I don’t feel like a Boomer because I haven’t had the stereotypical Boomer life experiences. That’s usually people about ten years older than me.
For example, I was 1 year old when JFK was shot, so obviously I don’t remember it at all.
I’m a Boomer by that spread, but wasn’t when I was born. In fact, up until high school or so, then they redefined things, more than once I believe, and I was later included. Interesting times.
True, but I still don’t trust anyone over 90!
Bite Me. Gen X’er-1967. 
Old Gen-Xer here. '65