EXACTLY! Those born in 1995 would not have experienced technology pre-internet and cellphones. Maybe as a young child, but not when you're coming of age like he's talking about. Gen X is actually the generation to bridge that gap. We went from 8 tracks to CDs, landlines to cellphones and saw the rise of the personal computer and internet. He's wrong, not those BORN 1985-1995 but grew up during that time frame. He completely forgot we existed.

Yup, he pretty much just described Gen X. As an iGen kid, my parents (Gen X) always were into technology & knew a lot about it.

GenX saw the birth and slow death of video arcades and the birth of home video gaming systems (I miss my Atari 2600). I've seen computers morph from the Commodore 64 to quadcore gaming machines. I was the only kid at my college who had their own computer. I knew the internet before the world wide web was a thing and played text-only games via Gopher. We went from nothing but landlines to car phones (for the rich) to beepers (doctors and drug dealers) to cell phones (everybody, even toddlers!). My first car didn't have a stereo until I installed it myself. My GenZ kids ask me how to do things on their computers. GenX rocks.

This post is not new but they have the dates wrong. It is the Xennials (born between 1977 - 1985) who are the micro generation who enjoyed a digital free childhood but had the benefit of enjoying the rise of the digital age whilst we were still young enough to adapt to it. We are also known as the happiest micro generation.

Everyone forgets about Gen X - we never got a fun name like Millennial so they just forget about us. Another part is that since there are sooooooo many Baby Boomers and Millennials we're going to forever be the middle child generation.

Everyone forgets about Gen X. We're the forgotten generation :)

We're the OG "Oregon Trail" generation!

Technically Millennials are from 1981 to 1996. I'm 1984. I had already smoked weed and gotten to 3rd base when I got home and found out Kurt Cobain died. If you were born from 1981-1985 it's actually really hard to identify with millennials. I feel we have more in common with X. If you were getting road head on your way to the beach on New year's eve 1999 you shouldn't be called a millennial.

The problem is that there really is no single 'gap generation', as the phenomena described in the article have been witnessed by people born in quite narrow age cohort, spanning from early-1970's to early 1980's (e.g. younger 'Generation X' and the eldest 'Millenials'). Only these people have personally seen the whole history of computers, from the times when computers were industrial machines, to the microcomputer revolution, to the internet, to the global social media. They also lived through the final stage of Cold War and Great Political Mess Up of early 1990's. Their peers in Central Europe were raised in communist regimes but entered workforce in fully capitalist ones (this also applies to some extent to China). But I really doubt this cohort is so unique, especially when you take technology out of equation.

They seem to have forgotten GenX after Slacker.

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"Created the best music in human history"? GenX invented jazz & rock ? LOL I'll give GenX for having an ego the size of a millenial

Agreed, this naming of generations is getting very old fast, as well as this inter-generational back-and-forth nonsense. When we were young and in our 20's, we couldn't believe how the old folks could be the way they were, now we're old and things are much the same. I was born in '55 and there's nothing in common, for me, with people born after '60 as a generation. If you went to college from '69-'73, your experience was at least a generation away from the years '75-'79. Generations last about six years, at most, I would say. That's too many clever names to come up with.