#Microblog Monday 428: Memory Lane
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Someone put this fantastic image together, breaking out pop culture by early, middle, and late for each generation. It highlights how much the years you’re born shape your cultural touchstones. I could identify 100% of core Gen X kid culture. And most of early and late Gen X (but not all). At the same time, large chunks of Gen Y and Gen Z sounded vaguely familiar but weren’t something I had seen or used.
Take a look at the segment of your generation.
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Born in 1961. I’m intimately acquainted or at least fairly familiar with just about everything in the Boomer & GenX images… there are a few gaps, but I grew up in Canada, in places far enough from the border (in a pre-cable era) that we only had one TV channel (the CBC) until I was 14. 😉 I did catch some TV shows at my grandparents’ house in Minnesota, and others in reruns later.
Once it gets into Millennials/GenY and beyond, my recognition starts to gradually taper off.
I’m a late Boomer apparently (given the dates, though the cut-off at one stage used to be 1960, it seems to have crept up to 1965 in recent years). So you could take what Loribeth said about Canada, and replace it with NZ and add at minimum a couple of years to the culture. I remember getting our first TV! We had a lot of US TV shows (and British, and Australian) but of course not all. Mostly recognised things in late Boomer and GenX culture, Interesting how the images changed from shows/movies with real actors, to cartoons or fantasy shows/movies etc.
Fascinating! I fall under late GenX by birthdate (1976), but the shows and movies for me straddled Core Gen X and Late Gen X. I feel like the Millennial culture is familiar because I worked at Scholastic at that time, and there was a profit trifecta of (early) Britney Spears, Pokemon, and Harry Potter. For the newest generation they’re going to have to have a bunch of weird memes and youtubers. I also liked the benchmarks that they chose — I feel like the Challenger exploding was definitely the “where were you then” moment of my childhood. (Watching live in the library with my 5th grade class, yikes).