Re:Xennials, the micro generation between Gen X and Millennials
by dragonwriter on Saturday February 24, 2018 @01:00PM
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> Somebody born in the US in 1980 certainly wasn't too old to have gaming consoles growing up.
I was born in 1973 and had consoles growing up, the Atari 2600 being the second not long after it came out (don't remember what the first was, except that it didn't use cartridges and had a few built-in games.)
People of about my age and even a little earlier were widely recognized at the time as being the first to have a digital childhood.
The idea that there is a “microgeneration” born later characterized by an analog childhood and digital adulthood is silly.
I was born in 1973 and had consoles growing up, the Atari 2600 being the second not long after it came out (don't remember what the first was, except that it didn't use cartridges and had a few built-in games.)
People of about my age and even a little earlier were widely recognized at the time as being the first to have a digital childhood.
The idea that there is a “microgeneration” born later characterized by an analog childhood and digital adulthood is silly.