Can we stop with the cutesy and coddling boomers

[BarghastTimes]

Most boomers can't even turn on a PC or console, like, who does the OP think they mean?

Prolly just fishing.

[DPZ2]

Most boomers can't even turn on a PC or console, like, who does the OP think they mean?

Pfttt. Many boomers spent their 20's with PCs and consoles, or invented them. It was their parents (aka those born in the 1930s and early 1940s) who spent their formative years without technology beyond radio and television.

[EZGIL]

Pfttt. Many boomers spent their 20's with PCs and consoles, or invented them. It was their parents (aka those born in the 1930s and early 1940s) who spent their formative years without technology beyond radio and television.

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A technical boomer is someone born between 1946 and 1964.

You are talking about Gen X's

[RitsukoSonoda]

Pfttt. Many boomers spent their 20's with PCs and consoles, or invented them. It was their parents (aka those born in the 1930s and early 1940s) who spent their formative years without technology beyond radio and television.

Remember one of my Grandfather's friends being addicted to Diablo II when it came out. He was 82 years old at that time and preferred playing video games to "boring crossword puzzles and stuff" lol.

[BarghastTimes]

A baller~ My grandma was really into The Sims, and my uncle was a hardcore Diablo fan too.

[Bobby66]

Most boomers can't even turn on a PC or console, like, who does the OP think they mean?

Prolly just fishing.

Fishing is FFXIV's true endgame.

[BarghastTimes]

I mean... I totally whinge on Forums and Reddit when in queues to level for 123123213 days.

[Gemina]

Pfttt. Many boomers spent their 20's with PCs and consoles, or invented them. It was their parents (aka those born in the 1930s and early 1940s) who spent their formative years without technology beyond radio and television.

Only the ones with money had those luxuries. TVs and radios being found in most homes didn't really happen until the 80s.

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A technical boomer is someone born between 1946 and 1964.

You are talking about Gen X's

Correct. Granted, Gen X is like this phantom generation between the boomers and millennials. Boomers constantly refer to gen X as millennials, and millennials often refer to them as boomers. Meanwhile gen X is more mentally sound than both of them considering that they raised themselves.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Only the ones with money had those luxuries. TVs and radios being found in most homes didn't really happen until the 80s.


Correct. Granted, Gen X is like this phantom generation between the boomers and millennials. Boomers constantly refer to gen X as millennials, and millennials often refer to them as boomers. Meanwhile gen X is more mentally sound than both of them considering that they raised themselves.

I'd say not so much mentally sound but more aware of things due to growing up during a time of very rapid and new advancements in technology. It's essentially resulted in Gen X on average having more developed observational and analytical skills due to frequently having to figure out and interact with newly developed things without a user's guide or manual being provided by someone else.

[IDontPetLalas]

Only the ones with money had those luxuries. TVs and radios being found in most homes didn't really happen until the 80s.


Correct. Granted, Gen X is like this phantom generation between the boomers and millennials. Boomers constantly refer to gen X as millennials, and millennials often refer to them as boomers. Meanwhile gen X is more mentally sound than both of them considering that they raised themselves.

Ok, while the part about the baby boomers being from 1946 to 1964 is factually correct, people should first of all recognize just how many years that represents and how quickly technology was changing during those years. The latter part of the baby boomers was quite different from the early wave, and while their access to as well as their access to PCs wasn't what we have now, that doesn't mean that they weren't available, nor was it just the super-rich that had them.

The other point that is really inaccurate was the statement that radios were consider luxuries until the 80s. I don't know the source of that, but the height of popularity of radio was generally considered to be during the 20s and 30s. In the US, some statistics showed more than 90 percent of households had radios by the 40s.