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Name that generation: 21-29

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  • #32
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I'll name that generation in one..


  • #33
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    I have heard Millennials before, awful name.


  • #34
    Downlinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    Shryke wrote: »
    I'm mid twenties and taped off the radio. Dubstep wouldn't register with me. I think that guy is about the 21 side of things.

    I'm 25. I did tape off the radio when I was very young, under-7 kind of young. I remember Nirvana, Beavis and Butthead and other staples of the MTV generation being popular but I was too young for them. Wouldn't say it counts as my generation when my age was single digits at the time, I was using mp3s before I was a teenager so I'd be much more the Napster generation than the cassette recording one. :D


  • #35
    Downlinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    marshbaboon wrote: »
    Ah man, it's back don't you know. Only came back up a week ago.

    you're joking. :pac:


  • #36
    nibtrix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭nibtrix


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    I have heard Millennials before, awful name.

    Yeah, I think it's fairly accepted as Generation Y or Millennials - anyone born from the early '80's to early '00's


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  • #37
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    Downlinz wrote: »
    you're joking. :pac:

    Rough round the edges, but yea. I was going to make a boards post but I didn't want to have anything construed as advertising. Also it's only barebones, there's a chatroom up but the boards will be a while yet.


  • #38
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    I'm 27 years and 214 days old, my generation has more traditional MTV values compared to the 27 years and 213 day old generation but a bit more prone to alcoholism and OCD compared to the 27 years and 215 day generation.


  • #39
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Downlinz wrote: »
    I'm 25. I did tape off the radio when I was very young, under-7 kind of young. I remember Nirvana, Beavis and Butthead and other staples of the MTV generation being popular but I was too young for them. Wouldn't say it counts as my generation when my age was single digits at the time, I was using mp3s before I was a teenager so I'd be much more the Napster generation than the cassette recording one. :D

    There was no Napster generation, we were all on dial-up! I definitely got more use out of cassettes than you did.


  • #40
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Stop pretending you are in the 21-29 age bracket. Stop it :p

    I'l do wha'eva I want, I'm lyk, anonymous n' stuff!....and 15 :P


  • #41
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    im invisible wrote: »
    We are the MTV generation, we experience neither highs nor lows

    showing your age there! MTV is very much gone and irrelevant in the music world now


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  • #42
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    The ****


  • #43
    Downlinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    marshbaboon wrote: »
    Rough round the edges, but yea. I was going to make a boards post but I didn't want to have anything construed as advertising. Also it's only barebones, there's a chatroom up but the boards will be a while yet.

    Had a look at some of the names there. akn, naffy, embee, bubbles. Real blast from the past.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    benwavner wrote: »
    I'l do wha'eva I want, I'm lyk, anonymous n' stuff!....and 15 :P

    Oh crap. I thought you were 19.
    Ignore that pm I sent please :o


  • #45
    Downlinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    Shryke wrote: »
    There was no Napster generation, we were all on dial-up! I definitely got more use out of cassettes than you did.

    oh but it could be done! Just had to wait about an hour for one eminem mp3 to download.


  • #46
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    nibtrix wrote: »
    Yeah, I think it's fairly accepted as Generation Y or Millennials - anyone born from the early '80's to early '00's

    I like generation Y for the sheer unoriginality.


  • #47
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    We are the generation that is distracted from distraction by distraction.


  • #48
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    We are the generation that is distracted from distraction by distraction.

    Sorry what?


  • #49
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Does anyone remember Ray Cokes and MTVs Most Wanted?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnDbWqe_kQ


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Where To wrote: »
    Does anyone remember Ray Cokes and MTVs Most Wanted?

    Holy crap, you read my feckin mind. I was going to ask "does anyone remember that program on MTV with your man on it" but didn't think anyone would have a clue :D

    Yes, I remember! I loved that show.


  • #51
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Fuck this generation! Can't what for the "16 and pregnant" gen to follow.

    Oh then you'll know what's hit you...we'll all know...


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  • #52
    PrincessLola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭PrincessLola


    My age group (21 to 22) were too young to actually get a job out of the celtic tiger.

    We didn't get broadband until we were older kids, so we never grew-up with high speed internet (well, I didn't anyway)

    Our first mobiles were in secondary school (or after confirmation at least)

    In our early teens things seemed rosy and we actually thought we would get a job when we were older (ha).

    Pokemon was the coolest thing ever.


  • #53
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    Generation Friends


  • #54
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    Im 20, I have no idea what dubstep is! I dont want to find out to be honest!


  • #55
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Oh crap. I thought you were 19.
    Ignore that pm I sent please :o

    predator


  • #56
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    PrincessLola wrote: »
    Pokemon was the coolest thing ever.

    No way, Pogs were the bees knees!!!


  • #57
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Generation woppa bars, Roy of the rovers bar, wham bars and panda cola.

    The generation of flooding and water shortages

    The generation of €1.50 a litre petrol

    The generation of 'only 2 channels'

    The saorview generation


  • #58
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Downlinz wrote: »
    Shryke wrote: »
    There was no Napster generation, we were all on dial-up! I definitely got more use out of cassettes than you did.

    oh but it could be done! Just had to wait about an hour for one eminem mp3 to download.

    Self Esteem by The Offspring was the first song I ever downloaded off Napster. I think it took about two and a half hours.


  • #59
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Pah, napster. I'm part of the 'Ah Dave Fanning why did you have to speak just before the song ended' tape generation


  • #60
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    Taping off the radio.
    Downloading stuff off of IRC networks.
    Napster.

    Strangely IRC is the only one of those that still has some cultural weight and usage.


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  • #61
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    Downlinz wrote: »
    Taping off radio and MTV were a bit before our time. Dubstep a bit after.

    No they weren't...


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