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[-] Silviecat44@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago

As a part of older GenZ I can assure you that VHS was still around when I was little

[-] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry to tell you that if you're older Gen Z you're probably not a kid anymore ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] Blazingflames6073@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Oh no! I was thinking that I remember those tapes too ;-;

[-] Entropywins@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I realized I was no longer part of the young crowd when I needed someone to explain newer slang words... I literally could not discern what was meant by it... never had the issue when I was younger I always understood the implied meaning of slang...

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Never fear, Urban Dictionary is still here.

[-] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Welcome to adulthood my friend.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think OP is probably referring to gen-alpha. The millennial's kids. The ones that are growing up never knowing a world without Minecraft or smartphones.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm 37. How do I co-exist with fully 100 different "generations?" I can't keep up.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's only like, five or six alive right now. There's the Baby Boomers (our parents, because most of our grandparents have died off by now), there's the one after us, the Zoomers, which are Gen-X's kids. Gen-X is the one that came right before us. You and me are Millennials, I'm 40. We came into adulthood in or around the year 2000. Our kids are mostly gen Alpha. The first generation born entirely within the 21st century and have never known a world that wasn't fully connected 24/7.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The gen before the Boomers, the Silent Generation, also still has people around, such as Joe Biden.

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

While that can be well and true now, I had been called before Gen.X then Gen. MTV, there was a time when we were the screwed generation (with similar adjectives to it), then millennials (I was already working though before Y2K, and recently I heard someone refer to FPS from my teen years as a "boomer shooter".

I've been through more generation changes than a dragonball character.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Same. For years, it seemed, when that concept was introduced to me, I recall being Generation X. Then I'd hear "No, no, we're Generation Y." Then somehow I was a Millennial. I don't know what I am anymore. I'm clinging to the original Generation X, if I have to have a label. It sounds cooler.

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Or have ever called a landline hoping the dad won't pick it up, and then when he does fear for one's own life.

[-] Trebach@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I see you learned the arcane AT commands to keep the modem from screeching when you connected to the internet.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Or to look your crush up in the phone book after working up the courage for ages. Call, heart-racing. Parent answers. Ask for the girl. They yell across the house. One year later. "Hello?"

"Hey, it's me, ivanafterall."

"Who?"

Classic rite of passage, am I right, guys!? We've all been there!

[-] Silviecat44@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Occured to me after i wrote the comment

[-] produnis@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago
[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Superior quality, but didn't make it on the market, the cassettes and mechanisms were too expensive, the heads as well. Sony thought that wouldn't matter, so they pushed it... turns out price does matter.

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