The people born between 1975 and 1995 are the most special generation of all time, and here's why:

They were born between two generations: one before the internet and before technology took control, and the following generation.

The generation before 1985 was old-school and believed in hard, consistent work, while the next generation believes in smart work.

This generation has seen it all: radio, television, Mario Bros, Nokia, cassettes, VHS, DVDs, Nintendo, PS4, video stores, Netflix, Snapchat, and virtual reality.

This is the generation that knows tradition and questions and judges based on reasoning. The previous generation didn’t ask questions, and the next one doesn’t know tradition.

The bridge between the industrial era and the internet age, they understand both sides based on experience. This generation should be leading everything. The older generation doesn’t understand what’s happening now, and the next generation doesn’t know where what they have comes from.

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Based on first line … whatever came next means nothing to me 🤣🤣🤣

Kids is a good movie

I have no legs

Lieutenant Dan?!?!!!??

No it's a line from Kids

But yes, he also has no legs

So true 🤙

I was born in the late 70’s and we were always accused on being cynical and not believing in anything.

I do think we’ve seen tremendous change. And that change has continued. My kids prefer to entertain themselves by watching people play video games on streams and talk as they play. I find this to be incomprehensibly boring. It’s now I know I’m old now. :)

cynical I'm not sure... but nobody else uses sarcasm better than we do. Plus, we need to see the "receipts" first to believe that a thing even happened 😉

You’re not alone!

But hey, it’s their thing.

The adults shook their heads and didn’t fully understand our “things” when we came up…

Thus the saga continues.

Fight for what matters, fight for a future for our young people. Fight for our right to have and hold our value.

Share. Live, love.

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Smart take

Would add in some tweeners: 1965-1975. Old-Xers, young-boomers. 15yo in 1985 mowing lawns for $5, wearing a Walkman.

I’m Gen Z but I resonate with this

Being alive during that time and not a being an infant was pretty cool. We were the generation that used be out late and you just came home when the street lights came on. Times were different.

Who still has POGS?

Remember pogs… MTG…

magic the gathering?

Magic was actually “cool” for a hot minute lol

i had friends who went to the shops with the cards and the comics

i was with the computer tho, i tried to interact with that crowd, many of my contemporaries at the library were either computer or tabletop gamers, i was the former, one of the notable latter dubbed me "evil ed" because i did look an awful lot like the dude out of that movie, was pretty funny scene, the library dwellers, totally split in two

i have long considered it the approval seeking nerds, and the rebel geeks, and mostly the geeks like the computers at that time

"geek" was even a slur back then, one little turd jerk child of petrolhead/football type dubbed me "geek" it was my actual nickname according to him

yes, the other geeks taht i got along with were book geeks, and i also liked a lot of books, and a lot of the books i liked were what the book geeks liked, but they lked movies more than me

I liked books too.

We come from that time when we had to pull index cards to get more info on things…. OR…. ask adults, which often replied: “that’s something you need to talk to your parents about”

yeah, and we just found another way around it, usually!

also i understand you are a dock worker... i made a great friend back circa 2010 who was a dock worker, also very fit (he may have been a bit bigger than you) but his thing was soldering copper pipes and rods into pyramids and meditating, and he introduced me to alex jones, who led me to Ron Paul and then Mises

Shipyard. I work on warships in various roles from preservation to fitting, etc.

mostly abrasive blasting and plural component airless / powder coating.

ah, ok, not quite the same, you aren't moving stuff around but repairing and maintaining the big machines

https://youtu.be/IuezNswtRfo

That and removing degraded coating systems via high pressure abrasive “blasting” with a hose akin to a firehose that shoots grit at high velocity to expose steel or other substrates and removes rust, mil scale and contaminates in order to clean and prep the surface (ie: the hull of the entire aircraft carrier) in preparation for a and entirely new series of coatings to be applied per mil-spec.

Magic is still cool.

Except for when you put a drill bit through a black lotus cause you made an NFT of it 🙄

I had the power 9 at one time.

I really loved cards like Birds of Paradise, reflecting pool… enduring renewal, trade wind rider…

Street lights? Ha. I used to stay out till 3 on week days then get up at 7 to go to school. We were 24/7 before the Internet.

Lmao.

Well as the single white dude in the ghetto, yeah my rays told me to be back when the lights came on.

I can identify with this, however as I grew, I learned how to exist with my fellow humans and no matter what type of group I was with I was usually safe, and cared about

Oh for sure. But when your 6 or seven. Ya ass is back to he crib when the lights came on.

But your point is poignant and correct. We must interact with everyone. Being a public school kid that was a great advantage. I had friends and classmates from every creed religion etc.

When you learn this as a kid it's just like second nature.

I had a feeling you’d understand what I meant. And yea at THAT young an age, I wasn’t so skilled at fitting in, especially when you are literally a different race, but I did. And I don’t regret it for a second, even the times that were rough or unfair towards me. I grew, and I met people who treated me like we had no skin. And that’s the strength, when we come together and realize we are all bipedal hominids.

There is no “future” alone. Nor is there a point, to any of it, if we aren’t together.

People hate to admit, or even acknowledge… without the other person in the equation, there isn’t a reason or a value. We are meant to experience, together, and define… enjoy, feel the pains, grow… love, laugh and sing. Together

Couldn't have said it better myself.

There is no future solo.

We played more tag than nintendo, elder millenials have one foot in the past and one in the future.

There’s just something about 80s babies that teened in the early 90s.

It feels like we can see both sides of the chasm between the boomer and the modern millennial+…

I wish we could all come together collectively and simply just do what’s right instead of fight amongst ourselves….

the con split us into x and millennial

Yea they redraw the generational lines all the time… I see it in a broader sense… boomer, 70s love, 80s babies, 90s tech starts really taking over… 2k+ becomes the new school.

If we just talk openly and learn from eachother and absorb the good and ditch the bad, maybe we can bring up some new leaders who really care about our lives and our families

i don't put much stock in social networks, but i think they are important conduits

i think that the tech dictates the path

to hold the current status quo in place they have tried to lock us out of fully 100% peer to peer networks

the central element of #nostr is precisely "ok, we need intermediaries, let's make them as dumb as possible" (and i could talk about how the mainstream of the nostr devs have taken that on like some religion when dumb relays is stupid, actually retotallygarded

i'm in the nerdy crowd who like the books and the computers still, it's the same story as ever, and i love my tribe

You very based in reality it's nice to see

Well thank you

1996-2000 always seemed peak America

The tail end of pre 9/11 was easily the greatest time in America. Absolutely everything changed after that.

It really does feel that way, looking back.

Which is a whole can of worms in itself.

There is a reason you feel that way. A gargantuan can of worms.

We’re trying 🫂💜🫡 IMHO: It’s not a generational thing as much as difference in morals and goals. We all have various knowledge, skills and abilities and some deem others as “ less - than “ based on whatever metrics.

#FollowTheMoney has always been me. If I say #EatTheRich offends people it’s obvious a lost in translation exists.

99% bleed for 1% greed and we all are enslaved to big Fiat. Hugs 🫂

I agree with this logic, and I use this same vernacular when openly discussing these topics with those I care for

It does become very frustrating when people continue to do the same things. On all fronts. 🫂

Definition of insanity

To be fair … 🤣🤣🤣 How better to win in a world of jokers than to become one of them 💜

Amen to that! 🫂

Relevant

I was born in the 70s Telluride

Then you remember the show, Touched by an Angel?

My parents didnt believe in having television

but I saw it a couple times.

wait wasnt that in the 90s?

either way.

Damn I always took you for a younger guy. The whole Japanese thing threw me off lol.

lol

its just because I'm naturally youthful

(and maybe a bit of an idiot)

🫡 represent

this is likely part of the reason many of ua GenXers think the idea

"my purchasing power should increase over time without much effort on my part"

kinda repugnant.

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Baby gen x’ers & senior millennials for the win.

Zoomer perms on suicide watch

Back when it was possible to be forgotten

No. No one EVER told us we were special. That’s the generation after us. 😉

lol.

Need to set up land line and have a phone with a 25ft cable that gets all knotted up from extending beyond it's reach in order to have a call from anywhere in my apartment plus a micro cassette answering machine and lose this damn cell phone 😄

Omg I remember those days…

Better disable call waiting in the modem string before you dial into ELN or AOL lol 2800 baud ftw

Early 90s was a fun time to be a kid. And not one of us knew what the federal reserve was until Zeitgeist came out. Well, that's when I started learning about it anyways. Realized we had been lied to about nearly everything.

Yea zeitgeist was huge.

What you are describing is Zillennials, born between 1993 and 1998.

We saw the Berlin Wall fall. We saw the Soviet Union crumble. We used DOS and dot matrix printers. We saw Apple when it was the underdog fighting Big Blue. We saw Apple turn into Big Blue. We saw blackberry, HTC and Nokia come out with some spectacular phones. We saw their collapse. We saw the growth of Amazon.

We saw the change. We are the change.

Yay. I’m special.

Yes. Yes, you are.

Can confirm.

We're basically carrying the world on our shoulders.

It’s going to take some truly unbiased leaders that can tap into the multigenerational differences and find common ground between them to fix many of the issues that plague our society today.

Eventually as a whole, we’re all going to need to make a commitment to maturity, and acknowledge that our care free and generally uninterested ways are causing factual damage to fundamental structures that ensure stability for future generations…

There is a movement among the xennial/millennial management folks to make this happen. We are the bridge generation for so many reasons. It's beautiful.

Fingers crossed

The days BEFORE the internet AND BEGORe the phones ...

WERE THE BEST DAYS EVER!!!

SO SAD the kids will never know this life!

Pager life was the happy middle ground

Hey, we can always tell them!

If you can get them off their device long enough

I don’t know about the ‘most special’ part but there is a ton of generational truth sandwiched in— that I experienced, and experience as I age, with things mentioned that resonate.

You misspelled "1974 to 1994" 😏

Sorry

🖤🖤

in America we were the first generation in a while that wasn't drafted. hopefully many more.

Was just conversing with Ms. Sai about that fact… luckily I’m safe from drafting at 43 but they can always change the law

Calculating how long until my kids are out of the crosshairs

That’s a repeater lol. Very long maths.

Our kids will never be out of any crosshairs, it’s a duality of life.

But we can engineer the future, and we can TRY.

As we do, they will eventually take our place, and hopefully the sincerity of our efforts will fill them with the confidence and staying power, to do the same for theirs.

shoutout millenials

Hoping they grab the good parts of the torch and propel us into a future where we look out for our seniors.

Reporting for duty

I know that’s right!

I don't see my self as a leader....

If you are from this generation, you led yourself to this point! Quite an achivement, taking into account all the crap we were put through 🫂

You will.

When those who came before you lend you their shoulder.

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Onward

Much truth in your words, especially the bridging between the „two worlds“. This is how I often feel.

In the end, without “eachother” the only other thing that matters is TIME.

Why not spend the ultimate resource, together.

Can you really appreciate the Internet if you've never heard a modem going super Saiyan?

Exactly.

If you can’t do a beat-box police academy mock dialup noise, all your base are belong to us.

The major Freaks have your back! 🫡

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we're golden babies

This

Beautifully said, thanks for sharing. 🌸

As a person that falls inside that window I must say this sounds about right.

Spot on

Thank you.

Your on the money

Appreciate that

The previous generation didn’t ask questions, and the next one doesn’t know tradition — well said

Pretty much

yeah, it's really true... the speed with which they erased history during my 20s and 30s was dizzying

I’ve experienced this even as recently as this morning, I was having a back and forth with Ms and went to pull up supporting evidence on the web only to find the entire topic had been spun 180 and was totally contradictory to what I had already done my due diligence on and accepted as a truth.

It’s scary when you live in a world where history is not a factual and immutable streaming record.

yeah, they are trying to erase history, 💯

not gonna work, too many copies that are not in sync and refuse to be in sync

The Mandela Effect!

Jk teh lulz

yeah! i member wat i member... pepperidge farms etc

The Bernsteen bears!? lol

“No Luke, I am your father.” Is a huge one. I watched empire strikes back so many times on vhs even with adjusting the tracking on the vcr it was worn out.

I know wtf Vader said lol 😂

"we aren't at war with oceania"

Damn straight

is that pic from the movie "Kids"?

Believe so

Physical face to face to Digital Face to Face communication.

Interesting point of view

I do that sometimes

Born in 2001 here. Have always related with my predecessors rather than those born even 3 years after me

This is more common I think than we all give eachother credit for / recognition of.

i think Alvin Toffler's thesis in Future Shock possibly mentions this problem of the acceleration of technology leading to this kind of difficulty although brainwashing that didn't get you early enough that may have for whatever reason worked on people born later could be a part of it

I belong to the best generation that will ever be. There will never be another generation between non-internet and full internet. We have seen it all, we have seen the start, the birth, the grow of the world wide network.

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88 here. golden boy.

81 myself

62

True OG

Well said, my friend ❤️‍🔥

GREAT POST

I think about this a lot. I grew up in a time when cellphones in high school were still uncommon but I also saw how people changed as texting became cheaper and cellphones were more common. There was a girl in high school I saw with a thumb splint on because she texted so much and she was still texting in class! I had a flip phone at the time and texting was expensive. Half the kids in high school didn't have cellphones yet but I could see how these devices could lead to other addictive problems. I remember going out as a kid to play with friends in the neighborhood and staying out until the street lights turned on. I remember meeting with friends at the mall and finding each other without cellphones. I remember getting kicked off the internet when my mom would use the phone. We have a unique perspective that no other generation in human history will ever have.