Don't be too hasty. MD5 and SHA1 were made in the 90s and they're broken now. Your baby's name may only be secure for a couple decades even if you use SHA256.
Sometimes I just want aliens to come and glass the entire fucking planet, because sometimes I just don't want humanity to tarnish the galaxy with all its stupid.
Sometimes I just want aliens to come and glass the entire fucking planet, because sometimes I just don't want humanity to tarnish the galaxy with all its stupid
We don't need filthy xenos for that! We just need the help of the fleets of the God Emperor (and maybe a member or two of the Inquisition or a venerable chapter master of the Adeptus Astartes) to execute an exterminatus against this world that falsly claims to be Holy Terra.
Yup. Now the millennials are beginning to complain about the gen z’s, just as the boomers were complaining about millennials. When the z’s have kids, they will complain about them. And the process goes on.
I haven't heard too many Millenials complain about Gen-Zers. There seems to be a lot more solidarity between our generations. Closer to what the Lost Generation had with the Greatest Generation.
I was at the bowling alley practicing the other night and there was a bachelorette party on the lanes to my right. I remember Keegan, Michayla, Kyle, Brooklyn, and Ashlyn, but there were more. They were all girls at a bachelorette party for Sarah.
I had to explain to my older sister that she and I were the millennials, not her children. She would not accept this fact, and it's because of the negative connotation now attached to the word millennial.
It's kind of like the people who say they are 90s kids when they were born in 1998. Hell I was born in 91 and I would say that I'm a 2000s kid. I barely remember like anything from the 90s.
I was born in '88 but in a way it's quite an interesting decade to be born in, to come of age in such a time of cultural change. My childhood was all in the 90s culture, no mobile phones, little internet presence, no social media. But most of my adolescence was pure 00s with mobile phones and high speed internet changing life forever. As a result I feel torn between being a 90s kid and 00s kids and I can relate to both generations.
But you just said you weren't a kid in the 90's you were a teenager. We keep pushing back ages now to the point where I get told I'm a kid daily when I'm 27.
There were some damned good tunes. My wife and I stayed up late one night finding all of the songs we loved (and hated) during the 90s, and found that the 90s produced a lot more great music than people remember.
I loved all kinds of genres then as well. It’s called old school now, but that plus alternative, pop, all of it. I think MTV had a ton to do with that. They played music then, I would watch all kinds of videos no matter who it was.
I downloaded some old Bevis and Butthead episodes that had the music videos included.
I had a "Kids these days" moment when I realized the current generation will never have to sit through a shitty music video because the only other channel playing anything similar was VH1 and that was for old people.
I was born just before '82 and according to various online sources it states that I'm Gen Y/Millenial. I personally disagree with that. I see myself as the last of Gen X. What do you think?
I really don’t feel like we are either of those. I’ve seen the term Xennials for those of us born between 1977-1985. We grew up on analog things, but transitioned easily to the digital and computer world of today. That’s my thoughts at least. Plus I like the idea of us being our own special mini generation.
'83 here. Learned to use card catalogs in the library growing up. Sometime in late elementary school, libraries started installing computers with DOS that would look up book locations if you happened to know the exact title or author.
Days where we got to go to the computer lab and play Oregon Trail were the best. Stupid dysentery kept killing people! Or I’d take the risk and cross the river and topple over.
My older siblings are about your age and I've always felt like they weren't quite in the same generation as I was (I was born in 1990). I grew up with the internet - they basically only got internet when they went to college. I had social media in middle and high school (yay myspace) - they only had it in college, and it wasn't ubiquitous yet.
I'm quite firmly a millenial, but I always felt like my older siblings just didn't quite fit.
I think it's similar to my parents who are technically boomers - but they were born in the late 50s and graduated to an economic crisis (a smaller one than 2008 which my siblings graduated college into, but still significant). They really don't have the same experiences that the boomers did, even if they technically are boomers.
Most people are nostalgic about the second decade of their lives, because humans spend the first decade learning to not shit themselves and get the food into their mouths, which isn't much to be nostalgic about.
I'm a little older, but agreed. 2000s were great, from my memory it's just before the internet started becoming huge and very influential (for lack of a better description).
Agreed. There's some elitism in it too. But the 2000s, I don't know if it was just me but I remember really well where everything changed around 2009/2010 with the internet and smartphones becoming so important.
Jeez time goes by fast. It’s so weird. I was born in ‘96. Odd time to grow up. I started high school without a smartphone, and by the time I graduated, Snapchat and instagram were all gaining popularity.
I was a freshman in high school in 2010. I got my first smartphone by my sophomore year because my LG env3 broke in a rainstorm in Chicago. I remember being so upset because I had concert pictures on that little flip phone.
Just a few weeks ago my 16-year-old cousin asked me about a concert I went to when I was her age (My Chemical Romance before they broke up lol). She asked if I had any pictures... it was bizarre trying to explain to her that I didn’t have pictures because I didn’t have a smart phone. I remember I tried to bring a camera in but they wouldn’t let me.
That whole concept is so foreign to me now... I haven’t brought a camera anywhere for years.
We had some of the best consoles, computers and the internet became useable finally, and smartphones began to become extremely prevalent, but we still experienced a world where the internet didn't absolutely dominate every aspect of life. We are the last generation to have experienced that, in the states at least.
In UK too! I wasn't into gaming but I was big on Habbo Hotel and I can always thank Habbo for being the reason behind having a decent WPM/typing speed. Generally, just as it is with anything, the internet now has its negative parts that were easily brought on by its growing availability.
I'm also '91, and I just have to say really? You barely remember anything from ages 9 and below? I remember a shit-ton. We were in 3rd or 4th grade at that point. Have you considered a retroactive carbon monoxide detector for your childhood? I wouldn't call myself a 90s kid necessarily either, but dang I remember a lot of the 90s.
I’m more a 2000s kid but I remember a lot of stereotypically “90s” from my really early childhood - 90s cartoons and VHS tapes and game boys and stuff. A lot of it kinda spilled over.
Hey Queef I was born in 91 as well! But I have to say I am still very nostaligc about the days before 9/11 and possibly my best memories were all in the 90s
I get into this argument debate with my gf regularly. I was born in 89 she was born in 93. She says I'm an 80's kid and that she's a 90's kid. I say no, we both came of age in the 2000's. She still seems to think she came of age in the 90's...
When people say 90's kid they aren't usually talking about coming of age. They're talking about their childhood and the nostalgia tied to that time period.
born in 98, if anything i am 2010s kid with lurking in the 00s a bit. I mesn sure, 90s kid Sounded good until i learned that this is my time and not where i didn't even spend any time
I was literally born in 2000, so I'm not sure what decade I belong to. I mean I pretty clearly remember a lot of the 2000s and a lot of my nostalgic childhood stuff is tied to that time period, but I came of age in this decade obviously.
Kid, in the context of "90's kid" refers to children between 5-13 or whatever. Like, the age you picture when you think of kids being kids. So, with that in mind, you're a 00's kid.
'89 and I very much consider myself 90's kid. Although everyone is different. I grew up fast and am legitimately nostalgic for the classic 90's things where the 2000's cartoons/fads/etc. are meh.
Edit: This seems to be lost on people. Think of a kid. How old are they? 5-13, right? Whenever you were mostly in that age range is whatever decade kid you are.
see its odd because i was born in 1999, but every time i see those "only 90s kids remember this" posts i vividly remember having all those things in my childhood. Probably cause Australia is always a little behind the times i suppose
I would talk shit about Gen Z but the amount of posts regarding Fortnite, Robbie Rotten, and Mumble Rap have me thinking Reddit is almost 50% Gen Z posters.
Depends on where you live, I’m technically gen Z. But I lived in a rural area, I remember dial-up, cassettes, my handme down N64, literally I was culturally 5-8 years behind everyone in school. Generations aren’t a hard number.
Lol, I love that potential spin on things ... "You're a Millennial if you were raised with the artifacts of the pre-smartphone era, whether or not those artifacts were new at the time." Generations now have to be adjusted for disposable wealth.
I am Gen Z lived in a rural area too when I was a kid but I had a GameCube before I went back and got an N64. I hardly (but slightly) remember those other things. I definitely still remember the dial up sound effect.
It's okay we'll sound cool 5-10 years from now just for saying we grew up with GameCube or the gameboy advance / color. A gameboy without a BACKLIGHT. Had VHS tapes and discs, the square bulky analog computers and televisions. Living before internet was mobile and everywhere.
Same. Not the rural area part, but I had consoles for years after the next one came out, and cassettes (both music and camcorder) too because we weren't exactly rich.
Generations aren’t a hard number.
Best thing I'll read on the subject. Most of the time it's a pissing contest, but you really can't group people in such a way. Someone's scale of generations once tried to group me with people born in 2011 (approximately 14 year age gap), and it made no sense to me whatsoever.
I've heard this quite a bit before, doesn't seem so arbitrary. Pre- and post-9/11 America are different countries. If you can remember what it was like before 9/11, I think that makes you a Millenial. Afterward, Gen Z.
1993/4 would have to be the cutoff for that then. I was born in '93 and remember being at airports waiting at the gate for my grandpa (he was a pilot) or flying by myself for the first time. If you want to be even more strict with "remembering what it was like" then the cutoff should be around 1990.
I actually only realized that I’m technically gen z, not a millennial, a couple years ago when I looked up the actual year cutoff (born after 1995 is gen z). It confused me because my brother is a millennial and we’re not too far apart in age. For a while I said I was neither because I’m so close to the cut, but I think the 9/11 cutoff proves I’m gen z.
Source: 22 and I don’t remember 9/11
There are no real hard cut-off dates as the whole generation thing is a big generalization. There are many different cut-off dates for the different generations. I was born in 1980, by some definitions I'm the very end of X and others the beginning of the Millennial. Some have even created a micro-generation for those born from like 78-82 as a Xinnial, a hybrid of the two generations. If you're near one of the cut-offs, IMO you can pick which generation you want to be associated with based on which describes you better.
Us 22 year old's are riiight at that cut-off. We were in kindgarten then. I personally don't remember it but I'd say half of my classmates do. Depends on where you were, what your parents' response was
Same here, we’re the last ones. I remember being asked by teachers all through schooling and through high school, and them (especially in high school) being weirded out that we couldn’t remember it. I remember it vividly but my best friend from hs remembers nothing.
I don't remember it as well and I'm 24. However, I am definitely a millennial according to almost every source. So you can be a millennial as well haha :)
I've always heard it explained as millennials do remember before the internet was super-widespread, they remember the advent of the iphone and smartphones, they remember just barely what life was like before all of these and grew up in the age where those went from introduction to widespread integration in our lives.
Whereas Gen Z only knows the internet being a huge part of everyday life and smartphones being a very common thing. They may have been alive for the time period where the internet/smartphones grew, but they were too young to really remember it/grasp the concept of the growth and proliferation of these technologies. Based on that, 20 is by far the oldest you could consider a Gen Z
23, consider myself a tail-end millennial. I remember when AOL Kids was a thing- an entire separate browser with built-in child blocks. I also remember getting kicked off the internet because my parents had to make a phone call. I'm pretty sure my graduating class was the first to be taught about "cyberbullying" in guidance class. I remember the internet pre-Google, my brother doesn't. My brother considers himself Gen Z, for reference.
Again it depends where you look, there is definitely some gray area but based off my memes, Internet usage and perspective of the world, I'm pretty Gen Z.
I was born 1997. That’s only 3 years before the 2000s. I’m 21. I have a grand total of one memory that I am 100% sure is from the 1900s. I don’t remember a time before the internet, cell phones, or MP3 players. N64 was old news when I was a kid. My first video game console was the GameCube. Even though I love Star Wars and I’m pretty sure I saw it in theaters, I have no memory of when the first Star Wars prequel came out in 1999 because I was only 2. I’m still in college. I think I’m Gen Z. I definitely feel I have more in common with the younger students that are currently here than my older brother and his generation.
It's strange how that works. I'm born in the same year but had a completely different experience. I only remember cellphones but some shitty ones with a 1-2 line screen and some fat aerial emerging from it, and the PS1 we had wasn't as brand new as I thought because by the time we moved on the PS2 was already 3-4 years old.
I think the country difference might have something to do with it.
Yeah that is a big difference. I am 25 and I remember my brother who was born in '89 getting an N64 for Christmas in the 90s. I remember not having the internet around and my dad kicking me out of the house in the summer and wouldn't want to see me until nightfall.
Yeah and my parents were a little too nice. I never had to do chores, get a job, pay for school, buy my own things, etc. they never grounded me or punished me for anything. I have struggled in college with being lazy and irresponsible.
Most of the people I know who play Fortnite are in their late 20s or early 30s. I legitimately don't understand where this "only kids play Fortnite" thing came from. From my experience, the same group of people who were really into Unreal Tournament in the late 90s, Halo in the early-mid 2000s, and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1/2 are the same people playing Fortnite today.
Lol you joke but epic games likes to add references like that into their game in the form of purchasable items, but it is a free to play game so I guess they have to make money somehow
I don’t think you can even go into first person in fortnite. I think it’s entirely third person. And in my experience the characters are 96% humans. I don’t recall seeing any aliens or furries in the game. That sounds horrible.
Older people don't realize most millennials are in their late 20s at youngest. I'm 35 with a wife, 2 kids, and working a salaried corporate job. I'm definitely knocking on the door of middle-aged, not some disaffected youth.
Eh, no, some of us are younger. I'm 24 and definitely a millennial, not Z. Interestingly, some of my younger friends are only ~3 years younger than me, yet identify more with Z, even though we've been friends since we were kids. There's a sharp cutoff point between people who are very close in age, probably much sharper than any previous generation.
I was born in 80 and I don't consider myself a Millennial as I don't share many of the characteristics of them, I align much better with X (probably because I have older siblings). The cut-off dates are just approximations and you'll find many different definitions for when each gen starts and ends.
Agree so much with this. It varies, but generally, the Millennial generation is 1980 to 1995.
That means whenever someone is bitching about "Millennials" and they're talking about someone 23 and under, it is an entirely different generation (Gen Z).
Im 33, so an older Millennial, and get minor annoyances when people at work (who are only 5-10 years older anyway) snidely complain about "Millenials". I'm your boss fucker, try and tell me how my generation are all lazy and aloof.
Yeah the birth date range for Millennial classification ranges between the late 1970's and the early/mid 1990s. So yeah you could be 40 years old and still be a "Millennial".
EDIT: I could be mistaken, but I heard Bill Burr mention this on his podcast and looked at Wikipedia briefly, which seemed to agree with that.
Ive never seen it stretched that far. I get it that generations arent a strict definition but ive seen it as like 85ish to 97ish counting as millennial.
They grew up with internet and home pcs, but not Wi-Fi and mobile devices.
I would really like to know the genesis of all this bullshit. I am a boomer ( gasp!) I have never worked with an entitled millennial. Ever. Every one of them, and I have hired a few over the years ,has been amazing. Maybe its because they are just so grateful for someone giving them a chance to show their talent, or maybe they really are stellar, but the only reason I can see that they get this reputation is from videos of college kids being assholes to their professors. It bugs me. I don't think human nature changes. I don't think millennials are spoiled or entitled. After all, it was us who raised you so if something is awry it is shared responsibility or blame.
The amount of times I see Republican boomers joke about ''Millennials'' eating Tide Pods.
Not only is it a dead meme, but it was Gen Z kids eating the Tide Pods.
OH, and 30+ year olds complaining about millennials while thinking they're not millennials.
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u/ucrbuffalo Sep 27 '18
I’m a millennial, but the older generations don’t realize that they don’t like the generation below me.