>>6854506Every company has their own definitions for what generation is and when.
It's basically all just marketing. Because males between the ages of 18-25, ages 26-40, etc make up such a big market for various products, they try to shove the generations into these demographics.
So it's why their own definitions of what they classified generations at have changed as well, in order to fit into the demographics for marketting.
Previous ways to define generations was more on events, so they're better at actually describing who is what, hence people born in the early 80s being able to identify better with Generation X and not with Millenials who didn't grow up fearing nuclear war.
Basically, if you remember the Berlin Wall falling live on TV, then you're part of Generation X.
Knowledge of technology is only really used to define later generations, as there really wasn't that big of a shift between earlier generations.
VHS was around from the 70s til the 00s. Cassette tapes were from 60s til 00s. Vinyl was around since the late 1800s and modern looking ones really didn't really appear until the early 1900s. So you had a very long period where these technologies were an everyday thing. So of course Gen Y would feel connected to Gen X, but only in terms of a very long lasting tech, but consumer tech has shortened a lot with Gen Y and Z, where DVD, BD, MDs, etc have become outdated in less than a decade of their release, even with what they play them on (CD players to MD players to ipods to iphones to streaming).
So for earlier generations, there was a pretty big stand still in terms of tech and how it affected daily life... at least, compared to Gen Y and Z.
Generation Y is more defined by their coming of age with the internet, cellphones, 9/11 being the most impactful during their important years of development. Older generations are cold war, vietnam, WW2, WW1, the great depression, etc.
