I loved Saturday morning cartoons. I loved the arcades. I loved malls (and mall theaters). I loved John Carpenter movies. I miss Arron Spelling and Steven J Canal tv shows. I miss 80's optimism. I HATE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
@@valentine_puppy only if you sit in total isolation and basically employ delusional thinking. What they're talking about is the way everyday life was, and it's long gone.
@ What I’m talking about is two things. One, remembering and enjoying those memories and two making a choice to live life in the way you want. That’s it.
@valentine_puppy who are you talking to?? Learn how to reply. You don't just put an @ symbol, lol. Read my reply again, repeat until comprehended. I know what you're talking about. It's pathetic gibberish and demonstrates a massive disconnect from reality.
@@maxmeeks9910coz u all were not born in the extremes Boomers were born in ultra comfortable env We Zoomers are born in ultra difficult env Gen X was born in moderate env with moderate technology not too advanced not too obsolete just the right mix
I’d say 78-94, just because of Van Halen’s first album. But yeah, that window of time in music will never be challenged. Across all genres. Hands down.
The music for any genre was really good then, but i think that music is better today (outside of hood rap) and the reason would be creativity is at an all time high, the tech for instruments have a huge impact, and the artists blending multiple genres into a single song. Just my take but for the music of that time period was very phenomenal!!
We grew up unsupervised, we drank from garden hoses, we partied everywhere; someone’s home, a field, the forest preserve, drive in movies, and the beach.
bicycles laying down in someone's garage.. come back home before the street lights go on... it's either 9 p.m. or 10 p.m., do you know where your children/kids are ?
1977 here! Gen X is definitely a unique one. We lived pre-Internet and post-Internet. We understand both sides of the coin. No other generation can make that claim.
Born in 1976 the last 4 years of GenX. Such a sweet spot. 80’s childhood, 90’s teen. The one thing that stands out in our generation is that we experienced FREEDOM! ❤️
Agreed, we saw insane amounts of change and our music said F the rules! Apparently 90's music is becoming all the rage and the yougins think we had such good music. We did.
Born in 69. Gen X was there for Star Wars and disco, MTV, arcades, it was a great time to be alive. Also, Gen Xers remember Reagan and the effect he had on America.
Born in 1969 as well. The music, the movies, TV shows, cloths, nearly a whole year celebrating the Bicentennial, being raised on Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street teaching us about kindness and reapect and that everyone has value, playing outside with friends or siblings till the streetlights came on. A lost time.
@@tcb1012we watched the Berlin Wall fall, Reagan did that w out firing a shot. That was epic, and great to live through as a young person. I remember the optimism for the future.
Born in 70 , we roamed free our parents didn’t look for us unless we didn’t show up back home at sundown rest of the day was spent roaming train tracks , riding bikes into Manhattan , exploring Times Square when it was dangerous . No smart phones . Was a great time to be a kid .
yea...we experienced true freedom away from adults. I had to listen for my mom yelling my name to come home and my friends experienced the same from their moms haha. Our moms yelled from the porch and that voice would filter across the neighborhood to the keen ears of us kids and if we were more than 3 minutes late then we got whooped and maybe missed supper haha.
It was pretty simple when we were kids. Most of us were about individuality. Most of us didn't care about race or gender. Either you were cool or a jerk. As long as you weren't a jerk, you were good. It was so simple.
Remember Gen X has 2 parts. Those who were born before 1973 and after. If your were born before 1973 you remember the 70's. I was 11 when Star Wars came out, went roller skating to disco, watched TV(Disney, Real People, Little House on the Prarie, Kung Foo, M.A.S.H) as a family, me laying on the floor, and being the remote control. Cars has seat belts but nobody wore them. Men got perms and everyone wore jeans with leather belts and double knit polyester, I remember it vividly. In addition it was where you grew up was key. I grew up in the socal suburbs. Looking back it was unbelievable.
I too grew up in Southern California out by Palm Springs area. Everything you said brings me back to those times. Arcades, wine Coolers, all your high school friends would either host house parties or we would all drive to the spot (usually a graded lot or up a dirt road to a pad on top of a hill not far from everything. Everyone brought Wine Coolers or beer to share with everyone. Music was awesome! Whatever type of music you were into: rap, hair rock, English pop new wave, rock ballads... Whatever. I could go on and on. If there was a time machine, I'd go back in a second. With one exception...I can go back with my money today and my wisdom. But even if I couldn't bring those things, I still would go back.
There seemed to be more social cohesion because with 3 channels to choose from everyone had watched the same tv show the night before. I remember, all we would talk about at school was what happened on Soap or Laverne & Shirley
Born in 74, we will be the most resilient when the poop hits the fan. We will adapt. The newer generations, (my kids) don't know anything but technology keeping them occupied. I use technology, but i also read books, play music, create art, have face to face conversations. I kinda want it to happen so gen x can laugh at everyone crumble. We used to drink from the hose ffs,we are like cockroaches at this point.
We were the last generation that had the privilege of actually being bored - having to think for ourselves to stay entertained. We couldn't just get lost in a cell phone or geek out on the web, because they didn't exist. We had to actually engage with the world. Our musical escapes either required us to lock ourselves away in our rooms (and risk having to do chores), or they were battery dependent options like finding a shady spot somewhere and listening to music on car stereos, or listening on our Sony Walkman (which always seemed to have batteries that were half dead). In order to play games, we had to fire up the Atari or the Intellivision (again, be stuck at home where the chores are), or grab all the lose change and dollar bills we could find and head over to the arcade to play games and maybe run into someone we knew so that we could hang out. But a lot of the time, you were by yourself.... all alone and just roaming the greater neighborhood... no friends to be found... and you dealt with it and made the best that you could out of a sucky and boring situation. It was just you and your thoughts. We're the last generation that sometimes just sat and watched traffic go by and counted red or blue cars, just because we were THAT bored.
Born 66. A magic time to come of age. We in many ways raised ourselves and each other. Our parents intervened to correct our course but mostly left us to our own devices. What an amazing period.
Yes. Gen X is the best. I'm born a millennial ( 87 ) but grew up with all the cultural aspects still of gen x for the first half of the 90s. No phones, no Internet, VHS, kids free to play etc. I'm so happy I got to have a childhood before the Internet.
We got lucky af! Lul. Because we had old school mixed with new school..... These kids have NO music thats new. Everythings easy af..... Lul theyre literally the useless gen no offense. Kids shouldnt have this access and freedom, they need to work hard and get prepared for the bs of life.... Not uber girls and Uber food and uber groceries and uber your brain 🧠
I don't think older people understand that most of us millennials grew up with the same stuff in the same kind of world. No cell phones, no social media, either no internet or internet in its infancy and I was born in '92. It's Gen Z that was raised in the "new world".
Live your life. You don’t have any obligation to participate in peoples delusions. When we were gen X kids we had to use our imaginations to play. The difference is we grew up. Most of The people these days are grown adults playing dress up and have taken it way too far. Make asylums great again.
I was born in 72. I find the more I get away from civilization and connect with nature, the better my mental health becomes. Turn your back on technology and the noise of our sick society as much as you can or as much as your vocation allows.
I was born in 73 and I remember thinking I wished I had been born sooner so I could experience the 60s😅 I didn’t realize at the time I was living in literally the Best time to grow up in. Flashlight tag in the neighborhood on summer nights, going to the record store to get the latest new music, keg parties and a boom box 😊
Born in 76 but I give a lot of credit to my grandparents who went through the great depression as children and fought in WW2! I pay homage to my grandparents ❤️🙏
The ww2 and generation before them were awesome! At heart as old people. My grandparents were too old or too far away to be around so the elders in my home town filled in and I miss them all so much. I’ve never found ppl like that for my kids to enjoy :(
I’m a millennial. My mom and her husband are Gen X and from the stories they tell me.. growing up Gen X sounds like the most fun and best times if you happened to grow up in a middle class area of the USA.
IM 45 , IT WAS FUCKING EPIC,, shut of your phone or leave it at home mp internet no text no social media nothing just answer your ohone only when you are home or have some else answer it and right down a note that you need tio caLL THEM BACK LATER WHEN YOU GET HOME. WE WERE FREE!!!!!!! WE are the last gen to know true human freedom no tracking , tracing everything forever, IT was care free and simple you had time to be in person with people , friendds family, I wish i could tell you ans aqll your generations followingmine all the great times we had. I miss it so much in my soul I miss it, i miss 80s and 90s life so much it hurts my brain.
We had a real middle class where for a time only one parent had to work, and it was enough to live. However, something changed and both parents had to work for us to survive. Thus, we free range kids. No one thought about day care or childcare back then unless they were an infant or preschool age. Our neighbors watched out for us. It was a different time. Every single day as a kid was an adventure, and we were outside exploring. No matter if you lived in a city or a suburb, you were out on your bike miles away from home. If you needed to call you had a dime in your pocket for a payphone that were everywhere, and your parents did not worry.
68 Gen-X too, grew up off a red dirt road in rural Virginia, playing in the creek, tracking animals, learning about nature and biology without a classroom. High school and moved to San Diego, family divorce stuff, I was out of my element, everyone thought I was a big John Cougar Mellencamp fan. Fast foward to young adult and headed back to Virginia, living in the city. Now in 2024 in my 50's, I call 6,000 feet elevation in Wyoming home. That little country boy that watched LOONEY TUNES on Saturday mornings with a bowl of Count Chocula is now an Army veteran watching the world fall apart.
Well....Internet (along with email) really starts to enter into the schools in 1995, and President Clinton in his State of the Union Address early in 1996 promised to connect every classroom to the internet by 2000. You would have been 15 in 1995 -- so at least you enjoyed the first 14 years without the burdens of tech. Those defining the generational parameters say you were the last year of Gen X. 😅
I was born in 1970. Loved being a tomboy and playing outside from morning to night. Less technology had many benefits. People were more civil. Fast food was cheap. Home made meals were the norm. There were bullies, but fewer.
the reason for less bullies was gen x didn't have time outs or groundings. We had a parent who wielded a belt, wooden spoon, spatula, or a switch, that we had to go get and bring to our parents. Every parent had the phone number to call a mom and tell her how her kids were acting up. Acting up in school was met with a paddling and the school called the house, before i got home, and my mom took over where the teachers left off haha.
@@arcticmonkey3Yeah...but then the bully comes back to school and has vengeance in mind. Back in the day the chance of you and the bully becoming friends(out of respect)after you fought was more the norm.
Born in 73. Raised on cartoons and the best sitcoms. We had real playgrounds then. My playground had a three-story rocket-shaped thing you could climb all over. We had only a few TV stations, but then cable came along! We had the best music, MTV played videos then! And it was the best era of movies for kids. From Jaws in 75 to about 1985, there were so many good movies. Star Wars, Alien, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Dark Crystal, The Thing, Ghostbusters! You went to the movies over and over, video games were new and so much fun. Stephen King had blockbuster hits every few months. You played with friends all afternoon, came home at dusk, and everyone had the same culture, basically. We all had the same news and same reference points. It wasn’t all good, of course. We had the fear of nuclear war, AIDS, drugs, bigotry, and we were frequently bored and hot as there wasn’t as much air conditioning then. But we put up with it and basically enjoyed our lives and looked forward to the future.
I was born in 77, a month and a half before Star Wars. I remember the MTV debut and literally watching the Video Killed The Radio Star. My first cassette tape was Run DMC. Was in a school library watching when The Challenger blew up and I ran back to my class to tell the other kids. My teacher cried. My school got "The Internet" in 1995 when I was a senior in HS. I feel like I was born at the perfect time to experience a rapidly changing world.
August of 77 here. Graduated in 1995. From Orlando so talk about the Challenger, I saw that in real time. MTV was great, actual videos. I believe my first tape was Madonna or Michael Jackson. Best time ever.
Born in 66..... we got to enjoy the very best of music, 70's thru the 90's.. awesome movies.... sports was amazing, college and pro..... I miss those days
1981. I was the last to get up, hop on my bike and didn’t come home till supper. Fishing, water hose drinking, 50 cent sodas, arcade, comics, hogan, Stallone, Conan, Miami vice.
Born in 1967. Best times ever! We had so much freedom. We had to figure stuff out on our own! We got on our bikes and took off! Gone for the whole day, home when it got dark. There were definitely no helicopter moms back then! Great conversation….brought me down memory lane 😊
Born in 72. My family came to the U.S. in 79. I spent the 80s coming home to an empty house before my parents and much older siblings got home from work or school. It was awesome. I’d go out and play with my friends as soon as my parents got home. The only rule was to get home for dinner - we didn’t eat till 7-8pm anyway. We always ate home cooked dinner together and watched TV together - all 7 of us. I was exposed to so much music from my brother who’s nine years older than me. I went from postpunk/new wave to modern rock to indie in the 80s to shoegaze and rave / techno / house / jungle / IDM in the 90s. Movies changed a lot back then too. Culture was never stagnant back then - there was always something new and exciting coming out every year. I would argue that this was even the case to some degree in the 2000s. It wasn’t until after the financial crisis or late 2008 that the culture started to become stagnant, and then came the wide usage of smart phones at the beginning of the 2010s, along with wide adoption of social media and our lives haven’t been the same since. There was still a lot of good music and film being put out in the 2010s but less so compared to previous decades. However, the 2020s have been the most rubbish decade ever and we’re already halfway in. I am so lucky to have been born Gen X and enjoyed the best of times.
As a Gen Xer we are privileged to witness the change from analog to digital. From vacuum tubes to microchips. We stayed out till the street lights came on without supervision, and nothing bad happened. And if there was a problem we handled it ourselves. We are independent, responsible at an early age, and we grew up fast. We are the last truly free generation. Goonies forever!
Thank merciful god that im gen x. The last truly free generation. 5 years old bombing around the neighborhood on my bike (schwinn stingray) with all my neighborhood friends. On my own and home before the sun set. The best music, cheap gas later. The 90s rock REVOLUTION. Man we really had it good.
I miss the days when phones were tethered to the wall. You could hang up, turn off the ringer, walk away. It wasn't a portable device that you feel responsible to tend to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Inaccessibility is a forgotten privilege from a better historical period.
no that didn't really exist.. we just had the Preservation of Life ethic, still intact. That's all gone, now.. it shows up in the carnage on the roads. There's literally NO THOUGHT GIVEN to other peoples safety out there. It's just about their own.. just like cops lol. their job isn't heroic.. they don't go running into anything to save lives. They go in after all the danger is gone in order to mop upo.. while they kill the homeless and call it a good job. pt tewie.
Born in 71 grew up in Australia & Malaysia & now lived in America 30 years - had a crazy eclectic life played Professional Golf & then ran a very business for years - now living happily on 20 acres in Georgia
Them saying a phone call was an event hit me hard. So so accurate. I remember the first time a girl called our house. My mom and sister dogged me for days. 1971 born here, we all had it the best. No doubt about!
coz u all were not born in the extremes Boomers were born in ultra comfortable env We Zoomers are born in ultra difficult env Gen X was born in moderate env with moderate technology not too advanced not too obsolete just the right mix
I was born in 1977…..I remember when We played outside till the street light came on. We didnt have cell phones or the internet. We had a real-life no fake AI crap We never had school shootings Video games didnt have murders on them Ms. Pac-Man We helped the neighbors The neighbor could spank your kid for being a dip-chit You got held accountable Today just sucks to many cameras, opinions, political parties, laws, why can't we just live.
I dont know if we're the best generation though I'm partial. But we definitely lived through the best decades in American history... I genuinely miss the 80s and 90s with a passion I never saw coming.
Yeah, I'm a millennial born in Australia. My dad is a gen xer born in the late 60s. The way he talks about the 80s and 90s makes me wish I was born 20 years earlier. I know there were problems back then, but it sounds like people were more free, less rules and regulations, at least in the Western world.
I’m so sad, even my Z kids agree my wife and I had the best luck with being a little kid in the 70s, teen in the 80s, and young adults in the 90s. Best times to hit those years.
I'm in my fifties, and went on a seven mile bike ride with a millennial. He was on a geared hybrid/commuter, I was on my BMX from 1982. He was amazed I kept up. We used to do that every weekend as kids. He was a little perturbed I didn't wear a helmet. 😆
Born Jan. 1967. I feel the only period in human history that saw the same number of major changes as from then until now would have been someone born in 1885 - 1905. The Phone and electricity cars and TV and Radio are landmark human creations. But so are Space Travel, Personal Computers, Cell Phones, the Internet, GPS, Social Media, and perhaps most impactfully (so far) AI. It's incredible the monumental changes that haven't stopped coming. I am greatful for my life and my life's amazing timeline. I loved "playing outside" and having actual friends that I saw and spoke to every day. But I also love watching a video here on UA-cam made by a guy in Prague that I will never meet and discussing it online with people from South Africa and Indonesia with whom I have communicated several times in the last two years. It's been a beautiful time I have lived in and I have had a beautiful, eventful life. We are all traveller's on a journey through time and for Gen-X, we are so lucky that our journey has been through THIS time. Cheers to my fellow X-ers!🥂
I'm Generation X, born late 1960s, elementary school throughout the 1970s. Time moved slower back then, our perception being our slow-mo reality. A couple of good memories from the 1970s? Playing guns in the conservation area by our house, new ranch-style homes everywhere where teenagers lived in the basements, lots of living space for miles and miles around. Drive-in movie theatres in a small town (we had two of them, one north of town, one west of town), watching old westerns and Bruce Lee movies, parents in the cars, kids running around, watching on lawn chair, the drowning sound of thousands of metal speakers vibrating on windows; And rollerskating rinks with giant arcades and disco rooms, those all-nighters at the rink from 8pm to 8am, playing arcade games wearing rollers skates. I dream of the 1970s ...
No way, man. After September 11th, that's when things went into the crapper. Of course the horrific day, but also cell phones weren't that prevalent yet and no social media at all. But, in a short time that all changed.
It has been bad since 2001 and getting worse. 9/11 really messed up our country and got us into two more wars and turned the media into a 24/7 profit driven propaganda machine.
Born 77.. I miss the freedom of the 80s-90s.. Back then the future still seemed friendly.. full of hope and possibilities. It was a great time for families, for communities, for friends.
Born 1976 here. Things that come to mind, are roltery phones, Tvs where you have to get up to change the channels. Playing outside for hours. Gen X is the glue that holds all the other generations together. We're the best of them all😁
Born '74' . Best i don't know. My grandparents and great grandparents generations were truly great. The time period i lived in did not appreciate it at the time but now 50 i realized i was blessed..
"The Greatest Generation (1901-1927) was #1. Gen X (1965-1980) is a close second. Why is Gen X #2? Smart enough change the world, with our mind (See Gen-Xer Elon Musk), but tough enough to do all the work necessary, without oversight, and not fold, like a cheap suit, under the pressure (Where later generations fall apart). Gen X was left to figure everything out, and we were better for it.
In 1983 my 3rd grade teacher (Mr. Miller) gave us an assignment to write about something we did over the summer. I asked him how long it needed to be. His response ... "It should be like a mini skirt, short enough to keep it exciting, but long enough to cover the goods".
As a gen x'er....have you noticed that when it was hard to get a hold of someone, you could actually talk to humans. Now that it's "super easy" to get a hold of someone, we only talk to machines??
“ free range kids..free range dogs. “ Outside playing all day… home for dinner. BB gun fights ! Beta and VHS. SNL was funny. School lunches were edible.
Born in 65. First or second year of Gen X. 70's? Spending all day playing outside with my friends unsupervised. Got my first vinyl albums which were 99% KISS. 80's? High School. Drove a 1981 Camaro Z28 with the Alpine always on 10 blasting a Van Halen tape I bought at the mall. Went to my first concert in 1982 which was the mighty Van Halen in their David Lee Roth prime. Def Leppard on Pyromania tour was also one of many to come afterwards. College. Going on spring break with my buddies to hang out with girls who laid in the sun all day with a sun block PF of ZERO. Early to mid 90's? My first apartment without roommates where no stick of furniture was worth over $5 and my mountain bike was kept in the empty dining room area. Must see tv on Thursdays which consisted of Friends and ER. Late 90's? Got my first home computer and cell phone not knowing the impact they were going to have on the world I knew in a negative way. Both of them were also harbingers of the 24/7 365 world that was about to destroy what was left of the world I knew and loved. I am grateful I was part of the generation that experienced it all and loved it.
Fellow Gen Xer here and I just bought for Xmas the car I dreamed of as an 80s teen. Found an gorgeous Electric blue/silver trim 1986 IROC Z Camaro with T-tops. Only 45k miles. The feeling of driving it is like my own personal time machine. That and playing a Guns and Roses cassette full blast on the car stereo :)
We’re now old people (those of us who are at least 50). Remember when old age seemed so far away? Now the Grim Reaper is right down the hall, winking at us.
1969 Xer here. I too have been cognizant of the fact that we did indeed get dealt a great hand in terms of historical windows. One foot in the analog world and one foot in the digital world. The best in art and entertainment, films , television, music seemed to happen during our formative years. I can’t express how cool it was to grow up in the 70s and 80s. Millennials yammer on all the time about how great the 90s were. They were fine, but very dull..meh. The 90s do not have a “feel” to me like the 70s and 80s do. I’m more than grateful to be a Gen Xer. We are a lucky bunch of free-range latch keyers.
Born in 1972 in L.A...being a kid in the 70s to early 80s, being a teen in the late 80s and early 90s..what an incredible time. As I get older, I find myself thinking about those time often.
I'm Australian 1978. Gained independence early, which prepared me for life, worked jobs, Manuel licence, can touch type, landline, wrote letters, mixed tapes, and overseas travel to countries that weren't overun by bloody cruise ships.
Growing up in the 70’s and early 80’s were the best. We had to go outside during the day. TV turned off at Midnight. We looked up this at the library. You either made plans before you left school on Friday or you were hosed. So much fun.
Born in 75. Interesting thing about that.... here in 2025 we will have lived a quarter century in not only two different centuries but two different Millennia. We lived with rotary dial phones but also even before MRI technology came about. We carried cold hard cash around. We saw the advent of MTV. We lived through what i would call the Golden Age of modern cinema in the 80's and 90's and the last really good period of musical talent then too IMHO. We had fist fights.... were tough... rode BMX and Skateboards and got injured a lot. We had to work really hard to achieve anything. Nothing was just "given" to us. No appreciation badges. We had Boy Scouts that actually hiked in the mountains and learned orienteering, camping, hiking, canoeing and other skills related to the outdoors or even our communities. Some of us learned martial arts, got into weight lifting.... we all played multiple sports. Some of us played in band because we loved movie sound tracks and admired John Williams for his musical genius. Sure, there was a lot of American and Western propaganda in general, but we truly LOVED our country/ies. ie USA, Australia, Canada, Europe.
I realized yesterday I was doing what all old people do. I was telling my gen Z grandchild about how much better it was when I was a kid. The conversation started because we were watching Stephen King's 11/22/63 and after the guy went back in time he came back and said the food was so good. My grandson didn't get the joke, so I explained how it all taste like crap now, but you don't know, since you've never had real food like that. Then I started thinking that's why dictators on the left and right both kill off the old, so they can't tell the young they had it better when you could have steak instead of eating rice while the elite eat all the good stuff. Then I started thinking about all the struggling people doing things like door dash for extra income and worry about paying the taxes on it while Hunter Biden walks away with no worries. That got me to thinking maybe we all are frogs in water that's slowly heating up. So, that's why so many people are negative online. Gen X did have it great, but this time we're in now does suck.
Love this take on Gen X from two great Gen Xers! We are very underestimated. We grew up the best of both worlds - analog and digital. We played outside. Had PC's in grade school and learned math, English and other subjects on floppy discs. Came home after the street lights came on to play video games all night. Teens in the mid-ish 80s to 90s. The MTV and hip hop generation. Saw the rise of Michael Jackson with Thriller. Prince. Tupac. Grunge. Great movies, tv shows, music. The sweet spot.
I was born in 87 with older siblings and older parents and not in a big city. It was still a bit old school. I get I got the very tail end of it, but it was so much better. I was raised like it was 1982.
Born 2/22/72, loved every minute of my crazy youth, it was a movie, as GEN-Xer's we ALL lived lives worthy of our own Movies. The "changes" happened at 87', then mid 90's, then 9/11/01 America died. Technology won't bring back "Good times." The America I knew has been over for some time now. We are just here, waiting for it to END.
Born in 76 went from rotary phones to digital to wireless to cell phones. My war was fought in New Jersey at Action Park and I almost died and I definitely got bruised and hurt ( all respect to our service men and woman who actually fought, though Action Park didn't follow the Geneva Convention). Had the best of both worlds from '80s music hardcore and punk rock to '90s grunge start of hip hop that old boom bap into the early 2000s after which music took a serious downward spiral. But that could be the old man coming out almost 50 now so new things scare me.
Gen X, Feelings Optional. I am a 1970 model, raised in NorCal between Sacramento and Redding. We used to tease each other on the way to school and if you lost you temper everybody laughed at you while others stopped the fight sometimes. Shit, I still get into trouble with my wife of 30 years if I acidently call her "Dude" LOL!
I was born in 1970. In 1980, I rode my bicycle to the store to buy orange crush and orange bubblicious, but in 2024 I drive my car to the store to buy orange metamucil.
The best time was when the phone had a cord. Hung on the wall. You had true freedom. When your boss called and you on the weekend and didn't answer. They didn't look at you like you were ducking his call. Oh how I wish had that freedom today. I am forced to carry a phone for work. 😂
Joe is so young for his age realizing he was born in '67 and fun hearing him talking about being able to witness the technological changes. Born in '70 and I grew up with a rotary phone on the wall with no voicemail to what we can do with a mobile phone now is incredible. It's incredible to think about growing up with zero adult supervision to the push towards AI monitoring and tracking everything we do is insane.
I loved Saturday morning cartoons.
I loved the arcades.
I loved malls (and mall theaters).
I loved John Carpenter movies.
I miss Arron Spelling and Steven J Canal tv shows.
I miss 80's optimism.
I HATE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
Same, for all of that.
You can always have that. Just remember and focus and meditate and dream and if you can implement it in your life.
@@valentine_puppy only if you sit in total isolation and basically employ delusional thinking. What they're talking about is the way everyday life was, and it's long gone.
@ What I’m talking about is two things. One, remembering and enjoying those memories and two making a choice to live life in the way you want. That’s it.
@valentine_puppy who are you talking to?? Learn how to reply. You don't just put an @ symbol, lol.
Read my reply again, repeat until comprehended. I know what you're talking about. It's pathetic gibberish and demonstrates a massive disconnect from reality.
Born in 71. Some of the best years of my life during the 70-90s. When computers were just starting to go mainstream. Some great years i miss much.
Same. Born in 79. Many years of prosperity and being treated kindly in general. Since 2012, for me, harsh.
Agreed
@@maxmeeks9910coz u all were not born in the extremes
Boomers were born in ultra comfortable env
We Zoomers are born in ultra difficult env
Gen X was born in moderate env with moderate technology not too advanced not too obsolete just the right mix
same. hard 70s, 80's, 90's but loving life now. I love what those years taught me.
-x
Same. 1971. We had the best decades to grow up in.
born in 68, child of the 70s , teen of the 80s, young adult in the 90s. love those times, and we got to see the growth of digital tech and media.
1967.
Born and raised in Miami. There's no need to say anything more.
1970 here. Totally agree
69 reporting in - yeah, child in the 70s, teen in the 80s - best decades for music!
@@WhatsCookingTime Feb. 1970. Class of 88 Rules.
Born in ‘72 1980-1994 was an incredible time overall especially the music
I’d say 78-94, just because of Van Halen’s first album. But yeah, that window of time in music will never be challenged. Across all genres. Hands down.
This.
I’d say ‘78-‘98. You start with Moroder, Eno, Kraftwerk and end with Boards of Canada, Autechre, Aphex Twin. 🙌🏻
The music for any genre was really good then, but i think that music is better today (outside of hood rap) and the reason would be creativity is at an all time high, the tech for instruments have a huge impact, and the artists blending multiple genres into a single song. Just my take but for the music of that time period was very phenomenal!!
@ “music is better today”…. Lol not by a looong shot - especially not in creativity. How old are you?
We grew up unsupervised, we drank from garden hoses, we partied everywhere; someone’s home, a field, the forest preserve, drive in movies, and the beach.
There was a Drive In where I grew up. We'd sneak out at night and meet up there. There's a strip mall where it used to be now.
bicycles laying down in someone's garage.. come back home before the street lights go on... it's either 9 p.m. or 10 p.m., do you know where your children/kids are ?
Generation X is the Bridge, between real experience and what technology is doing to humanity.
spot on,my exact thoughts
1977 here! Gen X is definitely a unique one. We lived pre-Internet and post-Internet. We understand both sides of the coin. No other generation can make that claim.
from 75, i absolutely agree and repeat it every fckn day
From 77 as well. Agree brotha!
Baby boomers: hold my beer
1977 🤘
@@edombre4637let’s be real. A lot of boomers are hopeless about tech 😂
Born in 1976 the last 4 years of GenX. Such a sweet spot. 80’s childhood, 90’s teen. The one thing that stands out in our generation is that we experienced FREEDOM! ❤️
1980... i guess the last of the GenX
Born in 80. 80s were the best days! Star Wars. Transformers. Schwarzenegger. eating chika sticks at the pool playing 4 square.
We're nirvana genx. Not motley Crue genx. We're the good one😅
@@annie.76 Best time ever to me 👊🤟
Agreed, we saw insane amounts of change and our music said F the rules! Apparently 90's music is becoming all the rage and the yougins think we had such good music. We did.
We were literally color blind free range children
lol I think I was one of them
Born to Rockers
I am this kid, anyone from the south remember riding Big Wheels behind the Mosquito Foggers?
that color blind thing didnt work very well did it...
Born in 69. Gen X was there for Star Wars and disco, MTV, arcades, it was a great time to be alive. Also, Gen Xers remember Reagan and the effect he had on America.
Studio 54 opened and closed by the time you were 11
It was Morning Again ☀️. I remember.
Gen X here - Your crazy about Reagan👎👈🙄🇺🇸
Born in 1969 as well. The music, the movies, TV shows, cloths, nearly a whole year celebrating the Bicentennial, being raised on Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street teaching us about kindness and reapect and that everyone has value, playing outside with friends or siblings till the streetlights came on. A lost time.
@@tcb1012we watched the Berlin Wall fall, Reagan did that w out firing a shot. That was epic, and great to live through as a young person. I remember the optimism for the future.
Born in Nov. 1969.
Damn what a great run thru the 70’s, 80’s & 90’s.
Grateful for it all. 🙏🏻
July 69. Same
Born in 70 , we roamed free our parents didn’t look for us unless we didn’t show up back home at sundown rest of the day was spent roaming train tracks , riding bikes into Manhattan , exploring Times Square when it was dangerous . No smart phones . Was a great time to be a kid .
Same thing in Texas ..we road bikes everywhere.came home when the street lights came on.. sometimes a lil after..we had no worries and plenty to do...
yea...we experienced true freedom away from adults. I had to listen for my mom yelling my name to come home and my friends experienced the same from their moms haha. Our moms yelled from the porch and that voice would filter across the neighborhood to the keen ears of us kids and if we were more than 3 minutes late then we got whooped and maybe missed supper haha.
1965-80 . Born in 73 we definitely had the best well-rounded childhoods
I was born in 83 and was a part of the same stuff. I don't consider myself a millennial
1973...right on.
Actually its 61-80 National geographic . I trut them over Harvard liberal study
Well Rounded is the perfect descriptor for my childhood. '77
@@sharkclub11961-1981 according to Nat Geo
It was pretty simple when we were kids. Most of us were about individuality. Most of us didn't care about race or gender. Either you were cool or a jerk. As long as you weren't a jerk, you were good. It was so simple.
i here ya
💯💯💯
I'm Gen X, and am thankful for it!
Me too !!
Me too
Remember Gen X has 2 parts. Those who were born before 1973 and after. If your were born before 1973 you remember the 70's. I was 11 when Star Wars came out, went roller skating to disco, watched TV(Disney, Real People, Little House on the Prarie, Kung Foo, M.A.S.H) as a family, me laying on the floor, and being the remote control. Cars has seat belts but nobody wore them. Men got perms and everyone wore jeans with leather belts and double knit polyester, I remember it vividly. In addition it was where you grew up was key. I grew up in the socal suburbs. Looking back it was unbelievable.
'...Being the remote...'
Heh. Having flashbacks right now. The good news is there were only 7 channels. (In NYC even.) 😏😁😁😁
wow the thing i wanted to comment about was perms had one lol
I too grew up in Southern California out by Palm Springs area.
Everything you said brings me back to those times.
Arcades, wine Coolers, all your high school friends would either host house parties or we would all drive to the spot (usually a graded lot or up a dirt road to a pad on top of a hill not far from everything.
Everyone brought Wine Coolers or beer to share with everyone.
Music was awesome! Whatever type of music you were into: rap, hair rock, English pop new wave, rock ballads... Whatever.
I could go on and on.
If there was a time machine, I'd go back in a second. With one exception...I can go back with my money today and my wisdom. But even if I couldn't bring those things, I still would go back.
Have all those same memories; 6 when StarWars came out . Grew up in Athens Ga
There seemed to be more social cohesion because with 3 channels to choose from everyone had watched the same tv show the night before. I remember, all we would talk about at school was what happened on Soap or Laverne & Shirley
Gen X means you don't care what others think of you. Period. We know who we are. We're tough❤
Amen!
Born in 74, we will be the most resilient when the poop hits the fan. We will adapt. The newer generations, (my kids) don't know anything but technology keeping them occupied. I use technology, but i also read books, play music, create art, have face to face conversations. I kinda want it to happen so gen x can laugh at everyone crumble. We used to drink from the hose ffs,we are like cockroaches at this point.
We were the last generation that had the privilege of actually being bored - having to think for ourselves to stay entertained.
We couldn't just get lost in a cell phone or geek out on the web, because they didn't exist. We had to actually engage with the world.
Our musical escapes either required us to lock ourselves away in our rooms (and risk having to do chores), or they were battery dependent options like finding a shady spot somewhere and listening to music on car stereos, or listening on our Sony Walkman (which always seemed to have batteries that were half dead).
In order to play games, we had to fire up the Atari or the Intellivision (again, be stuck at home where the chores are), or grab all the lose change and dollar bills we could find and head over to the arcade to play games and maybe run into someone we knew so that we could hang out. But a lot of the time, you were by yourself.... all alone and just roaming the greater neighborhood... no friends to be found... and you dealt with it and made the best that you could out of a sucky and boring situation. It was just you and your thoughts.
We're the last generation that sometimes just sat and watched traffic go by and counted red or blue cars, just because we were THAT bored.
Born 66. A magic time to come of age. We in many ways raised ourselves and each other. Our parents intervened to correct our course but mostly left us to our own devices. What an amazing period.
"Best single historical window". Best!! 1967-1987: my wonderful youth-- --and the best music and films.
Born in 73 , a time in history when the balance between safety and freedom was about right.
Yes. Gen X is the best. I'm born a millennial ( 87 ) but grew up with all the cultural aspects still of gen x for the first half of the 90s. No phones, no Internet, VHS, kids free to play etc. I'm so happy I got to have a childhood before the Internet.
We got lucky af! Lul. Because we had old school mixed with new school..... These kids have NO music thats new. Everythings easy af.....
Lul theyre literally the useless gen no offense. Kids shouldnt have this access and freedom, they need to work hard and get prepared for the bs of life....
Not uber girls and Uber food and uber groceries and uber your brain 🧠
I don't think older people understand that most of us millennials grew up with the same stuff in the same kind of world. No cell phones, no social media, either no internet or internet in its infancy and I was born in '92. It's Gen Z that was raised in the "new world".
GenX loves you too
As Genx, I feel our generation's time was a blessing and a curse. We had it so good, personally I'm not sure how to navigate this new reality.
Its fkin easy....just swipe right to everything lol
Live your life. You don’t have any obligation to participate in peoples delusions. When we were gen X kids we had to use our imaginations to play. The difference is we grew up. Most of The people these days are grown adults playing dress up and have taken it way too far. Make asylums great again.
I was born in 72. I find the more I get away from civilization and connect with nature, the better my mental health becomes. Turn your back on technology and the noise of our sick society as much as you can or as much as your vocation allows.
Me neither, I really don't like it anymore
I know what you’re saying I’m tired of simple things that used to be very simple. No me and you have to learn a whole computerized operation system.
I was born in 73 and I remember thinking I wished I had been born sooner so I could experience the 60s😅 I didn’t realize at the time I was living in literally the Best time to grow up in. Flashlight tag in the neighborhood on summer nights, going to the record store to get the latest new music, keg parties and a boom box 😊
No question! Gen X really is the greatest generation and this is coming from a 35 year old Millennial. Badasses all around from Gen X.
Same and oh the irony😅
i was born in '69 during the winter so i have zero memory of the 60s lol. I feel ya man as my earliest memory is from the 70s.
🤘
@@proudtobedesiThank you!
Born in 76 but I give a lot of credit to my grandparents who went through the great depression as children and fought in WW2!
I pay homage to my grandparents ❤️🙏
Yes.
Same ❤ the greatest
The ww2 and generation before them were awesome! At heart as old people. My grandparents were too old or too far away to be around so the elders in my home town filled in and I miss them all so much.
I’ve never found ppl like that for my kids to enjoy :(
@ thank you brother for sharing.
I wish I had a small town experience to grow up in!
I’m a millennial. My mom and her husband are Gen X and from the stories they tell me.. growing up Gen X sounds like the most fun and best times if you happened to grow up in a middle class area of the USA.
I am sure it had its problems! I just don't know what they are. 71'
I wasn't middle class, and it was great. We were very aware of the gangs and stuff. We lived like it was our last day everyday.
IM 45 , IT WAS FUCKING EPIC,, shut of your phone or leave it at home mp internet no text no social media nothing just answer your ohone only when you are home or have some else answer it and right down a note that you need tio caLL THEM BACK LATER WHEN YOU GET HOME. WE WERE FREE!!!!!!! WE are the last gen to know true human freedom no tracking , tracing everything forever, IT was care free and simple you had time to be in person with people , friendds family, I wish i could tell you ans aqll your generations followingmine all the great times we had. I miss it so much in my soul I miss it, i miss 80s and 90s life so much it hurts my brain.
It was.
We had a real middle class where for a time only one parent had to work, and it was enough to live. However, something changed and both parents had to work for us to survive. Thus, we free range kids. No one thought about day care or childcare back then unless they were an infant or preschool age. Our neighbors watched out for us. It was a different time. Every single day as a kid was an adventure, and we were outside exploring. No matter if you lived in a city or a suburb, you were out on your bike miles away from home. If you needed to call you had a dime in your pocket for a payphone that were everywhere, and your parents did not worry.
68 Gen-X too, grew up off a red dirt road in rural Virginia, playing in the creek, tracking animals, learning about nature and biology without a classroom. High school and moved to San Diego, family divorce stuff, I was out of my element, everyone thought I was a big John Cougar Mellencamp fan. Fast foward to young adult and headed back to Virginia, living in the city. Now in 2024 in my 50's, I call 6,000 feet elevation in Wyoming home. That little country boy that watched LOONEY TUNES on Saturday mornings with a bowl of Count Chocula is now an Army veteran watching the world fall apart.
I'm a Free range kid born early 70s...played outdoors 80s and 90s .
Born 1980 here. Glad my childhood was tech free.
1980 born and me too man me too
Absolutely man. This weak generation from today literally cry about not having wifi or a cell phone around in general. Plus they are socially awkward.
Well....Internet (along with email) really starts to enter into the schools in 1995, and President Clinton in his State of the Union Address early in 1996 promised to connect every classroom to the internet by 2000. You would have been 15 in 1995 -- so at least you enjoyed the first 14 years without the burdens of tech. Those defining the generational parameters say you were the last year of Gen X. 😅
1981 I just missed the cut. Damn!!!(not that these “labels” mean anything anyways).
1980 here as well, best ever!¡!
I was born in 1970. Loved being a tomboy and playing outside from morning to night. Less technology had many benefits. People were more civil. Fast food was cheap. Home made meals were the norm. There were bullies, but fewer.
Fewer bullies ? Hard disagree. Today in school bullying is punished instantly
@ There is online bullying now. I see gobs of cases where young kids off themselves due to bullying. That was unheard of before.
the reason for less bullies was gen x didn't have time outs or groundings. We had a parent who wielded a belt, wooden spoon, spatula, or a switch, that we had to go get and bring to our parents. Every parent had the phone number to call a mom and tell her how her kids were acting up. Acting up in school was met with a paddling and the school called the house, before i got home, and my mom took over where the teachers left off haha.
@@arcticmonkey3Yeah...but then the bully comes back to school and has vengeance in mind. Back in the day the chance of you and the bully becoming friends(out of respect)after you fought was more the norm.
No such thing as tomboys any more. 😢
Born in 73. Raised on cartoons and the best sitcoms. We had real playgrounds then. My playground had a three-story rocket-shaped thing you could climb all over. We had only a few TV stations, but then cable came along! We had the best music, MTV played videos then! And it was the best era of movies for kids. From Jaws in 75 to about 1985, there were so many good movies. Star Wars, Alien, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Dark Crystal, The Thing, Ghostbusters! You went to the movies over and over, video games were new and so much fun. Stephen King had blockbuster hits every few months. You played with friends all afternoon, came home at dusk, and everyone had the same culture, basically. We all had the same news and same reference points. It wasn’t all good, of course. We had the fear of nuclear war, AIDS, drugs, bigotry, and we were frequently bored and hot as there wasn’t as much air conditioning then. But we put up with it and basically enjoyed our lives and looked forward to the future.
I was born in 77, a month and a half before Star Wars. I remember the MTV debut and literally watching the Video Killed The Radio Star. My first cassette tape was Run DMC. Was in a school library watching when The Challenger blew up and I ran back to my class to tell the other kids. My teacher cried. My school got "The Internet" in 1995 when I was a senior in HS. I feel like I was born at the perfect time to experience a rapidly changing world.
August of 77 here. Graduated in 1995. From Orlando so talk about the Challenger, I saw that in real time. MTV was great, actual videos. I believe my first tape was Madonna or Michael Jackson. Best time ever.
I’m a gen X and we are the last of the best
Is that why you raised the weakest generation in American history with Gen Z?
Best there was, best there is, best they’ll ever be. 💯
Gen X had the most brutal vocabulary, modern people can't handle it.
We can unknowingly be feeling assassins in the workplace. I had no fuckin idea how fragile they are
It’s called Truth.
Fucking facts!..
Fascists!
Yup as a CO in prison im always hurting feelings. Inmates and staff
Born in 66..... we got to enjoy the very best of music, 70's thru the 90's.. awesome movies.... sports was amazing, college and pro..... I miss those days
1981. I was the last to get up, hop on my bike and didn’t come home till supper. Fishing, water hose drinking, 50 cent sodas, arcade, comics, hogan, Stallone, Conan, Miami vice.
Born in 1967. Best times ever! We had so much freedom. We had to figure stuff out on our own! We got on our bikes and took off! Gone for the whole day, home when it got dark. There were definitely no helicopter moms back then!
Great conversation….brought me down memory lane 😊
same here, 1967 was the best year to be born (along with other Genxer's) for all that happened.
I was born in 1970. I’m glad I grew up then and not now. I actually kind of feel sorry for young people nowadays.
Born in 72. My family came to the U.S. in 79. I spent the 80s coming home to an empty house before my parents and much older siblings got home from work or school. It was awesome. I’d go out and play with my friends as soon as my parents got home. The only rule was to get home for dinner - we didn’t eat till 7-8pm anyway. We always ate home cooked dinner together and watched TV together - all 7 of us. I was exposed to so much music from my brother who’s nine years older than me. I went from postpunk/new wave to modern rock to indie in the 80s to shoegaze and rave / techno / house / jungle / IDM in the 90s. Movies changed a lot back then too. Culture was never stagnant back then - there was always something new and exciting coming out every year. I would argue that this was even the case to some degree in the 2000s. It wasn’t until after the financial crisis or late 2008 that the culture started to become stagnant, and then came the wide usage of smart phones at the beginning of the 2010s, along with wide adoption of social media and our lives haven’t been the same since. There was still a lot of good music and film being put out in the 2010s but less so compared to previous decades. However, the 2020s have been the most rubbish decade ever and we’re already halfway in. I am so lucky to have been born Gen X and enjoyed the best of times.
Sounds exactly like my life but born in 79
Born in 68, so glad I grew up before tech, and social media.
1968 here! Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s were MAGICAL and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
As a Gen Xer we are privileged to witness the change from analog to digital. From vacuum tubes to microchips. We stayed out till the street lights came on without supervision, and nothing bad happened. And if there was a problem we handled it ourselves. We are independent, responsible at an early age, and we grew up fast. We are the last truly free generation. Goonies forever!
Thank merciful god that im gen x. The last truly free generation. 5 years old bombing around the neighborhood on my bike (schwinn stingray) with all my neighborhood friends. On my own and home before the sun set. The best music, cheap gas later. The 90s rock REVOLUTION. Man we really had it good.
Hmmm. I think I want a t-shirt that reads "Thank God I'm Gen-X ".
stingray u where spoiled lol good old days kids do not get sarcasm these days
@@dewshine12345 man I wish I still had that bad boy. It was WAY too big for me. Lol.
Gen X is so awesome that we don't even care what the answer to this question is.
lol
I miss the days when phones were tethered to the wall. You could hang up, turn off the ringer, walk away. It wasn't a portable device that you feel responsible to tend to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Inaccessibility is a forgotten privilege from a better historical period.
I miss the high trust society and how all sides had some mutual respect for one another
no that didn't really exist.. we just had the Preservation of Life ethic, still intact. That's all gone, now.. it shows up in the carnage on the roads. There's literally NO THOUGHT GIVEN to other peoples safety out there. It's just about their own.. just like cops lol. their job isn't heroic.. they don't go running into anything to save lives. They go in after all the danger is gone in order to mop upo.. while they kill the homeless and call it a good job. pt tewie.
Ignore the other m*r*n's comment. You are 100% correct and I miss that as well.
Born in 71 grew up in Australia & Malaysia & now lived in America 30 years - had a crazy eclectic life played Professional Golf & then ran a very business for years - now living happily on 20 acres in Georgia
Gen X, the last generation with an actual immune system and intestinal fortitude.
Them saying a phone call was an event hit me hard. So so accurate. I remember the first time a girl called our house. My mom and sister dogged me for days. 1971 born here, we all had it the best. No doubt about!
I have the exact same sense that our window offered us the broadest perspectives, opportunities and a front row to all of this history . A great ride!
coz u all were not born in the extremes
Boomers were born in ultra comfortable env
We Zoomers are born in ultra difficult env
Gen X was born in moderate env with moderate technology not too advanced not too obsolete just the right mix
I was born in 1977…..I remember when
We played outside till the street light came on.
We didnt have cell phones or the internet.
We had a real-life no fake AI crap
We never had school shootings
Video games didnt have murders on them Ms. Pac-Man
We helped the neighbors
The neighbor could spank your kid for being a dip-chit
You got held accountable
Today just sucks to many cameras, opinions, political parties, laws, why can't we just live.
I dont know if we're the best generation though I'm partial. But we definitely lived through the best decades in American history... I genuinely miss the 80s and 90s with a passion I never saw coming.
Yeah, I'm a millennial born in Australia. My dad is a gen xer born in the late 60s. The way he talks about the 80s and 90s makes me wish I was born 20 years earlier. I know there were problems back then, but it sounds like people were more free, less rules and regulations, at least in the Western world.
Yes!
@@JW4897-v2w Exactly. More free, less rules, not under surveillance while you sleep.
I’m so sad, even my Z kids agree my wife and I had the best luck with being a little kid in the 70s, teen in the 80s, and young adults in the 90s. Best times to hit those years.
I'm in my fifties, and went on a seven mile bike ride with a millennial. He was on a geared hybrid/commuter, I was on my BMX from 1982. He was amazed I kept up. We used to do that every weekend as kids. He was a little perturbed I didn't wear a helmet. 😆
Then one day, we did that stuff for the last time, but we didn't know it until much later.
There is a certain nostalgic melancholy I feel thinking about the last kegger in the woods.
@@stevegyles3190 Freedom.
Born Jan. 1967. I feel the only period in human history that saw the same number of major changes as from then until now would have been someone born in 1885 - 1905. The Phone and electricity cars and TV and Radio are landmark human creations. But so are Space Travel, Personal Computers, Cell Phones, the Internet, GPS, Social Media, and perhaps most impactfully (so far) AI. It's incredible the monumental changes that haven't stopped coming. I am greatful for my life and my life's amazing timeline. I loved "playing outside" and having actual friends that I saw and spoke to every day. But I also love watching a video here on UA-cam made by a guy in Prague that I will never meet and discussing it online with people from South Africa and Indonesia with whom I have communicated several times in the last two years. It's been a beautiful time I have lived in and I have had a beautiful, eventful life. We are all traveller's on a journey through time and for Gen-X, we are so lucky that our journey has been through THIS time. Cheers to my fellow X-ers!🥂
I'm Generation X, born late 1960s, elementary school throughout the 1970s. Time moved slower back then, our perception being our slow-mo reality. A couple of good memories from the 1970s? Playing guns in the conservation area by our house, new ranch-style homes everywhere where teenagers lived in the basements, lots of living space for miles and miles around. Drive-in movie theatres in a small town (we had two of them, one north of town, one west of town), watching old westerns and Bruce Lee movies, parents in the cars, kids running around, watching on lawn chair, the drowning sound of thousands of metal speakers vibrating on windows; And rollerskating rinks with giant arcades and disco rooms, those all-nighters at the rink from 8pm to 8am, playing arcade games wearing rollers skates. I dream of the 1970s ...
Things were really good right up until about 2014 and that's when things really started to slide. I was born in 71
I finished college that year. The PC/woke bs was just starting to creep up. Can’t imagine school now.
That's when I turned 18. Things did change in the U.S.
No way, man. After September 11th, that's when things went into the crapper. Of course the horrific day, but also cell phones weren't that prevalent yet and no social media at all. But, in a short time that all changed.
That is when Millennials got old enough that they started being put in charge of things.
It has been bad since 2001 and getting worse. 9/11 really messed up our country and got us into two more wars and turned the media into a 24/7 profit driven propaganda machine.
Born 77.. I miss the freedom of the 80s-90s..
Back then the future still seemed friendly.. full of hope and possibilities. It was a great time for families, for communities, for friends.
Born 1976 here. Things that come to mind, are roltery phones, Tvs where you have to get up to change the channels. Playing outside for hours. Gen X is the glue that holds all the other generations together. We're the best of them all😁
When you said you'd be there and you were.
Born '74' . Best i don't know. My grandparents and great grandparents generations were truly great. The time period i lived in did not appreciate it at the time but now 50 i realized i was blessed..
"The Greatest Generation (1901-1927) was #1. Gen X (1965-1980) is a close second.
Why is Gen X #2? Smart enough change the world, with our mind (See Gen-Xer Elon Musk), but tough enough to do all the work necessary, without oversight, and not fold, like a cheap suit, under the pressure
(Where later generations fall apart). Gen X was left to figure everything out, and we were better for it.
In 1983 my 3rd grade teacher (Mr. Miller) gave us an assignment to write about something we did over the summer. I asked him how long it needed to be. His response ... "It should be like a mini skirt, short enough to keep it exciting, but long enough to cover the goods".
As a gen x'er....have you noticed that when it was hard to get a hold of someone, you could actually talk to humans. Now that it's "super easy" to get a hold of someone, we only talk to machines??
Born in 72. Gen X. Say no more.
F yeah born in 72 and what awesome years to be a kid
“ free range kids..free range dogs. “ Outside playing all day… home for dinner. BB gun fights ! Beta and VHS. SNL was funny.
School lunches were edible.
Born in 65. First or second year of Gen X. 70's? Spending all day playing outside with my friends unsupervised. Got my first vinyl albums which were 99% KISS. 80's? High School. Drove a 1981 Camaro Z28 with the Alpine always on 10 blasting a Van Halen tape I bought at the mall. Went to my first concert in 1982 which was the mighty Van Halen in their David Lee Roth prime. Def Leppard on Pyromania tour was also one of many to come afterwards. College. Going on spring break with my buddies to hang out with girls who laid in the sun all day with a sun block PF of ZERO. Early to mid 90's? My first apartment without roommates where no stick of furniture was worth over $5 and my mountain bike was kept in the empty dining room area. Must see tv on Thursdays which consisted of Friends and ER. Late 90's? Got my first home computer and cell phone not knowing the impact they were going to have on the world I knew in a negative way. Both of them were also harbingers of the 24/7 365 world that was about to destroy what was left of the world I knew and loved. I am grateful I was part of the generation that experienced it all and loved it.
Fellow Gen Xer here and I just bought for Xmas the car I dreamed of as an 80s teen. Found an gorgeous Electric blue/silver trim 1986 IROC Z Camaro with T-tops. Only 45k miles. The feeling of driving it is like my own personal time machine. That and playing a Guns and Roses cassette full blast on the car stereo :)
Born 1968. Social media / dating apps and the like are like a bad cocaine habit. Just made people ruder, meaner, nastier and badder
We’re now old people (those of us who are at least 50). Remember when old age seemed so far away? Now the Grim Reaper is right down the hall, winking at us.
A Xylennial ( born in 82) got to play outside until the lights came on, and enjoyed Saturday morning cartoons.
1969 Xer here. I too have been cognizant of the fact that we did indeed get dealt a great hand in terms of historical windows. One foot in the analog world and one foot in the digital world. The best in art and entertainment, films , television, music seemed to happen during our formative years. I can’t express how cool it was to grow up in the 70s and 80s. Millennials yammer on all the time about how great the 90s were. They were fine, but very dull..meh. The 90s do not have a “feel” to me like the 70s and 80s do.
I’m more than grateful to be a Gen Xer.
We are a lucky bunch of free-range latch keyers.
Born in 1972 in L.A...being a kid in the 70s to early 80s, being a teen in the late 80s and early 90s..what an incredible time. As I get older, I find myself thinking about those time often.
Gen X - Raised on hose water and neglect. Stay feral! 🤣🤣🤣
Born 1/1/73, for sure Gen X is the most well rounded generation.
You calling us fat?
We are the only generation that had analogue childhood and digital adulthood...and it will never happen again.
I'm Australian 1978. Gained independence early, which prepared me for life, worked jobs, Manuel licence, can touch type, landline, wrote letters, mixed tapes, and overseas travel to countries that weren't overun by bloody cruise ships.
X Marks the spot. Great movies, great music, great friendships.
Growing up in the 70’s and early 80’s were the best. We had to go outside during the day. TV turned off at Midnight. We looked up this at the library. You either made plans before you left school on Friday or you were hosed. So much fun.
Born in 75. Interesting thing about that.... here in 2025 we will have lived a quarter century in not only two different centuries but two different Millennia. We lived with rotary dial phones but also even before MRI technology came about. We carried cold hard cash around. We saw the advent of MTV. We lived through what i would call the Golden Age of modern cinema in the 80's and 90's and the last really good period of musical talent then too IMHO. We had fist fights.... were tough... rode BMX and Skateboards and got injured a lot. We had to work really hard to achieve anything. Nothing was just "given" to us. No appreciation badges. We had Boy Scouts that actually hiked in the mountains and learned orienteering, camping, hiking, canoeing and other skills related to the outdoors or even our communities. Some of us learned martial arts, got into weight lifting.... we all played multiple sports. Some of us played in band because we loved movie sound tracks and admired John Williams for his musical genius. Sure, there was a lot of American and Western propaganda in general, but we truly LOVED our country/ies. ie USA, Australia, Canada, Europe.
Growing up gen x was great. It's the future that SUCKS.
Gen X are analog and digital and super street wise. A lethal combo
The problem with what he’s saying is that not all change is good we’ve been in a downfall since the millennium
Gen X child here...
SOOOOOOO BLESSED TO HAVE GROWN UP IN THE BEST TIME...
EVER. SUPERIOR MUSIC..SUCH FUN PLAYING OUTSIDE ALLLLL DAY/NIGHT LONG...😊
I realized yesterday I was doing what all old people do. I was telling my gen Z grandchild about how much better it was when I was a kid. The conversation started because we were watching Stephen King's 11/22/63 and after the guy went back in time he came back and said the food was so good. My grandson didn't get the joke, so I explained how it all taste like crap now, but you don't know, since you've never had real food like that. Then I started thinking that's why dictators on the left and right both kill off the old, so they can't tell the young they had it better when you could have steak instead of eating rice while the elite eat all the good stuff. Then I started thinking about all the struggling people doing things like door dash for extra income and worry about paying the taxes on it while Hunter Biden walks away with no worries. That got me to thinking maybe we all are frogs in water that's slowly heating up. So, that's why so many people are negative online. Gen X did have it great, but this time we're in now does suck.
Forgot to mention...
Super Mario Bros.
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Love this take on Gen X from two great Gen Xers! We are very underestimated. We grew up the best of both worlds - analog and digital. We played outside. Had PC's in grade school and learned math, English and other subjects on floppy discs. Came home after the street lights came on to play video games all night. Teens in the mid-ish 80s to 90s. The MTV and hip hop generation. Saw the rise of Michael Jackson with Thriller. Prince. Tupac. Grunge. Great movies, tv shows, music. The sweet spot.
Rave Generation
Streetwear Generation
80's 90's Goth
( though 90's Goth were more the Imitators )
I was born in 87 with older siblings and older parents and not in a big city. It was still a bit old school. I get I got the very tail end of it, but it was so much better. I was raised like it was 1982.
Born 2/22/72, loved every minute of my crazy youth, it was a movie, as GEN-Xer's we ALL lived lives worthy of our own Movies. The "changes" happened at 87', then mid 90's, then 9/11/01 America died. Technology won't bring back "Good times." The America I knew has been over for some time now. We are just here, waiting for it to END.
Born in 76 went from rotary phones to digital to wireless to cell phones.
My war was fought in New Jersey at Action Park and I almost died and I definitely got bruised and hurt ( all respect to our service men and woman who actually fought, though Action Park didn't follow the Geneva Convention).
Had the best of both worlds from '80s music hardcore and punk rock to '90s grunge start of hip hop that old boom bap into the early 2000s after which music took a serious downward spiral.
But that could be the old man coming out almost 50 now so new things scare me.
Born in 73 and I believe it was the best ..it's sucks now 😂😂
Gen X, Feelings Optional. I am a 1970 model, raised in NorCal between Sacramento and Redding. We used to tease each other on the way to school and if you lost you temper everybody laughed at you while others stopped the fight sometimes. Shit, I still get into trouble with my wife of 30 years if I acidently call her "Dude" LOL!
I was born in 1970. In 1980, I rode my bicycle to the store to buy orange crush and orange bubblicious, but in 2024 I drive my car to the store to buy orange metamucil.
Born in 71. I've had the privilege of living through America's peak pop culture. I thank God that I grew up before the internet.
The best time was when the phone had a cord. Hung on the wall. You had true freedom. When your boss called and you on the weekend and didn't answer. They didn't look at you like you were ducking his call.
Oh how I wish had that freedom today. I am forced to carry a phone for work.
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I born was in 71..the 70s through the 90s growing up was the absolute best...I wouldn't trade it in a million year's...
Born in 1970 and had a great time as a teen in the 80s and going out in the 90s. ❤❤❤
Short answer is Yes, we are the best generation...
I'm not sure we're the best, but we were definitely the luckiest.
Joe is so young for his age realizing he was born in '67 and fun hearing him talking about being able to witness the technological changes. Born in '70 and I grew up with a rotary phone on the wall with no voicemail to what we can do with a mobile phone now is incredible. It's incredible to think about growing up with zero adult supervision to the push towards AI monitoring and tracking everything we do is insane.