Name that generation: 21-29

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.

Donnielighto

Generation Friends

mauzo

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

Donnielighto

Deleted User wrote: »

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

predator

mauzo

PrincessLola wrote: »

Pokemon was the coolest thing ever.

No way, Pogs were the bees knees!!!

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

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.

antodeco

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

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.

Sea Filly

Downlinz wrote: »

Taping off radio and MTV were a bit before our time. Dubstep a bit after.

No they weren't...

Sea Filly

1ZRed wrote: »

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

Whoosh!

Varied

Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du
Yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du
Yeah

TeddyTedson

We're the transition generation.

HalloweenJack

Varied wrote: »

Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du
Yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du
Yeah

**** off. It took me years to forget that ****e!

Sea Filly

Varied wrote: »

Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du
Yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du
Yeah

But, yes.

Varied

HalloweenJack wrote: »

**** off. It took me years to forget that ****e!

You love it, you probably have it on your favourites on your mp3 playing device.

Squ

Decklanders

flas

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

Downlinz wrote: »

Came in to say Pokemon Kids.

Taping off radio and MTV were a bit before our time. Dubstep a bit after.

Could also elude to the internet since we were the first generation to grow up with it.

See this is what I'm talking about. I'm 29 and taping off the radio/MTV were very much my time while I was too old for Pokemon. I don't feel part of this generation at all.

im 24,taping off the radio was big when i was younger,pokemon wasnt,not anyone my age or around it who i knew or ini feel school gave a flying shyte about it,its strange...i feel like dubstep or whatever its called is too young/crap for me,me and everyone i know prefrs guitar bands and what not...

CaliforniaDream

antodeco wrote: »

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

It was Tony Fenton on the Hotline.
"You're a winner!"

Definitely taping off the radio, MTV when it had music on it, The Simpsons when they were good, TMNT, marbles, pop music, dial-up if you were lucky, sparkles and snap bracelets for fun.

My friends and I did not have mp3, Pokemon, Dubstep (isn't that a recent thing?) or reality tv.
I was born in 1985.


No idea what to call the generation though.

Vicxas

I was born in '86

Ive played Pokemon, ive watched TMNT, Thundercats and Original Transformers.

Ive been stopped on the border going into the north as a child with sniper rifles pointed at us.

I seen the Berlin Wall fall

I remember 9/11

But ive no idea what to call us, We've had no "Defining" moment as a generation.

The Tolerence generation maybe?

Feisar

The passive aggressive generation?

Bosco Generation?

antodeco

The children's channel generation

BraziliaNZ

Shryke wrote: »

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

I used to leave Napster on overnight though on the 56k, wake up and all 5 songs would have downloaded, a whole 30mb in only 11 hours!!!

Tombi!

Well what defines the generation? I mean I was born in '88 but I still don't know at what age we can really be defined.
I still remember boy bands/girl bands, Pokémon, cartoons that were worth watching on Saturday.


I also remember the pink and yellow rangers from the original Power Rangers.
I'm going with "has perfect taste in women" generation.

sheesh

aaronjumper wrote: »

As long as no one starts calling us the dubstep generation. *Shudders*

Dubstep generation it is so!

TPD

PrincessLola wrote: »

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.

Pretty spot on (I'm 22). Lived in London the first while, but the same things apply.

The comeback of yoyos in about 1999, good times.
I remember waiting ages for Age of Empires 1 demo to download (25mb), only to find when it eventually did, I couldn't play it online through AOLs ****ty parental controls.

Dravokivich

Varied wrote: »

Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du
Yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du
Yeah

Holy shíte, that chorus is a Giant F. I never noticed that before.

charlietheminxx

Feisar wrote: »

The passive aggressive generation?

Bosco Generation?

I really think that's the best way of putting us

For the record I'm 25 and was part of the taping things off the radio as a child movement, the cheesy mid to late-90s pop era, using Kazaa to download music on my dial-up connection (only 2 hours for a song like Stairway to Heaven when I was 14 - and it was free! Score! Course you were paying for internet by the minute), chatrooms, getting your first mobile phone and being so excited that it's a brick which has a choice of EIGHT ringtones and a pull up aerial, Glenroe on a Sunday night (the worst moment of the week when you then try to get all your homework for Monday done). The generation when you KNOCKED for your friends

I think I was slightly too old for Pokemon. I HATE Dubstep, I don't get it at all, it's awful.

Funglegunk

The LOL generation.

Crimbouser

1zred said the hook up generation. Agree. Look outsidew any pub or club on a friday or saturday night. It's such a romantic and uplifting sight. Relationships seem kind of disposable these days.;(

starlit

Tiger cubs
Technology Generation
20th Century Kids
Kidadults
80's Kids

Allyall

The Arrog80's Generation

Varied

Dravokivich wrote: »

Holy shíte, that chorus is a Giant F. I never noticed that before.

A giant F for "fuuuuuuuuuuuck" everytime it comes on the radio.

Morag

They are Generation Y

Scanlas The 2nd

charlietheminxx wrote: »

Feisar wrote: »

The passive aggressive generation?

Bosco Generation?

I really think that's the best way of putting us

For the record I'm 25 and was part of the taping things off the radio as a child movement, the cheesy mid to late-90s pop era, using Kazaa to download music on my dial-up connection (only 2 hours for a song like Stairway to Heaven when I was 14 - and it was free! Score! Course you were paying for internet by the minute), chatrooms, getting your first mobile phone and being so excited that it's a brick which has a choice of EIGHT ringtones and a pull up aerial, Glenroe on a Sunday night (the worst moment of the week when you then try to get all your homework for Monday done). The generation when you KNOCKED for your friends

I think I was slightly too old for Pokemon. I HATE Dubstep, I don't get it at all, it's awful.

When you say us who are you talking about? What age limits define your generation?

waywardsun

LoYL wrote: »

We've had the baby boomers, generation x, the super generation, threads about naming your penis and so on. Name the 20 somethings who have been getting such a bad press. They need recognition and their label. Who are they?

The new Aussies.

MaxSteele

Lemme see .... Recession, mass emigration, terrible haircuts, Hipster culture, love for music from Queen, Journey.

The 80's reborn generation.

Nerdkiller1991

The "internet killed the video star" generation?

But to be honest, I'm kind of an oddball of this generation. I don't use Facebook (have an account, but never use it), I don't own an MP3 player, I didn't get a mobile until 2009 (and I've used the same one ever since), used VHS until 2004, taped songs off the radio...yeah, this so called "dubstep" generation just isn't me at all.

SimonTemplar

Ray d'arcy on Den TV with Dustin, Socky, Zig and Zag. They were gas back in the day. Remember Draw With Don, and Dustin kept saying d'arcy's arse! Great children's TV to be fair.

Remember Call Cards! Those cards that gave you "credit" for public phones.

Proper action movies that wowed the audience with actual stunts instead of wall to wall CGI.

Seeing Fr. Ted for the first time!

Ross and Rachel wedding in London (I even remember it being mentioned on the hourly news bulletins on RTE Radio)

Muir

I'm 21 and I taped things off the radio & MTV. I like the Bosco generation.

John Doe1

The Penetration Generation (c)

languagenerd

I didn't tape much off the radio, but I did tape off CDs when they first got popular. That sounds so weird now :P but we used to make mix-tapes so we could have loads of different bands on one tape and not have to skip the crap filler songs in the middle of albums. And my parents' car only had a cassette player, so we'd have to have tapes for the car. I remember when my mum got a cable that connected a DiscMan to the cassette player. The CD would skip every time you hit a bump in the road (which was pretty bloody often in pre-motorway Ireland!) but we still thought it was the best thing ever!

Ohh, when was Barney (the dinosaur) first shown on TV? Could we possibly be the Barney generation?

charlietheminxx

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

When you say us who are you talking about? What age limits define your generation?

21-29, as defined in the thread title?

Moon Indigo

Atlantic 252 only decent radio channel at one stage pity it was a loop!

Taping music off MTV/MTV 2 from the TV to VHS

Oceanfree.net...chat rooms and dial up... then some smart person deciding its funny to pull out the phone cable.. :eek:

50 pence pocket money.. endless possibilities... cans of shandy & Touch down bars

Not quite sure how this could be summed up with a tag? Maybe the boyband/girlband generation! I'm 29 and it was all spice girls tracksuits, boyzone, e 17, backstreet boys, etc etc.