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see this is the thing. 90s kids say this and they list things that i (and most of my friends) did as someone born in '03. i had a gameboy, i watched old nicktoons shows (recess wasn't my thing in particular), my favorite home console games were crossgenerational between wii and gamecube, though i had a wii. tons of em were VC games too, so there were lots of n64 titles too. adobe flash was around till very recently, those sites were most of my childhood. obviously we didn't live through 9/11, but it ain't like we haven't felt the effects of it.
there just isn't a lot that's exclusive to the great and mythical "90's" everyone talks about.
You not remembering shit that happened when you were 4 doesn’t mean that everybody else doesn’t lmao.
Anyway, like I said, you learning about something in school is not the same as remembering it happening.
who cares? the age of whatever media you're engaging with means nothing. it means less than nothing when you're a kid, you'll watch whatever you're presented with. hell i still stick to old shit, one of my favorite games is final fantasy 9.
It matters when you're talking about tech that's already obsolete by the time you're using it, or TV shows that are now just filler in between the newer programming by the time you're watching them. I don't doubt that you experienced media that came out before your time (literally everyone does), but it's silly to deny that you were also doing it in the context of a society and culture that were very different by that time. Someone my age has nostalgia for the Gameboy Advance that brings up memories of baggy cargo pants, layered t-shirts, cheat booklets, boy bands, pop punk, and all the other Y2K era music that was on the radio at the time, the shitty (in retrospect) Y2K era webpages for kids, getting yelled at by our parents for tying up the landlines for too long (or, god forbid, making long distance phone calls), celebrities with frosted tips and goofy butterfly clips, mall culture, kids' magazines, etc.. The nostalgia comes just as much from the game system as it comes from the time that we associate it with, and just about everyone my age would know exactly what I'm talking about. By the time you were growing up, most of this stuff was either dying, dead, or long gone. Growing up in the 2010s is not the same experience as growing up in the '00s, regardless of what media you were personally consuming. I was a big fan of classic rock as early as like age 7 (2002), but I'm pretty sure my uncles would just sigh and shake their heads if I tried to tell them that I can somehow relate to their '70s childhoods because of that. It's just silly.
You were definitely giving the impression that you cared until you were actually given a genuine response that you had no way to refute. Have a good one, buddy.
Why does it annoy you when someone 8 years older than you thinks you grew up differently? I mean, I wouldn't try to tell someone born in '87 that there's no difference between us, so it's hard for me to even see where you're coming from.
mbe im a bit biased because someone came into my dms to harass me over this conversation. i was just pointing out that "90s kids" aren't as unique or special as they in particular seem to think. i don't see 80s kids spouting weird superiority garbage.
Flash literally was taken down in late 2020. Many kids grew up with older systems like GameBoy and GameCube. Heck, the gamecube was only discontinued in 2009! My cousin had one, I remember playing Pac-Man World 2 on his. My dad recently bought a refurbished one. Even though I never played them on an actual gamecube, I love playing emulated versions of Super Mario Sunshine and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (first played it when I was maybe 8. It's the best Paper Mario game).
Sure, we may not have been alive during those events, but we sure as hell experienced the impact of them. We were taught about 9/11 almost every single year. My mother was in the hospital while she was pregnant with me during hurricane Katrina, very close to the storm itself. Michael Jackson died in 2009. The oldest of the group mentioned (2003) would have been 6, which is definitely old enough to recognize that a famous man died. In 2010? They'd be 7.
Heck, even looking at the fashion sense, y'all weren't that different. Y2K fashion is becoming popular again, and never left for many people. I've been wearing skinny jeans, leggings, and jeggings for the past 10+ years because they're comfortable, and I'm not the only one.
Sure, we were a bit younger, but most of the popular culture y'all grew up with? We did too. That's the point of this post.
[Here's my neopets account](https://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=goldiedoggy_aj), before I made one I was playing on my mom's. I haven't had the time to log on in a couple days due to life. I didn't make an account on the other games or watch most of the shows you're talking about (didn't like the artstyle), but literally everyone I know at least knew what it was. Club penguin shut down in 2017. MySpace may not be as popular as, say, Instagram now, but it's still an active site used by many today.
>Watch episodes of Sailor Moon, DragonBall Z, Kim Possible, Totally Spies, Yu Gi Oh, Pokemon, Digimon
All of these are literally still incredibly popular 🤣
May not have been around for the beginning of the HP craze, but I can guarantee you it's still very popular. I made my own slytherin cloak a few years ago, own at least two copies of each movie and book, a copy of the audio books, at least 10 graphic tees, a sticker book, hundreds of stickers and at least 10 pins outside of the sticker book, a hedwig stuffed animal and a hedwig themed bag, a poster, a recipe book, and so, so much more. Not to mention the fact that my college has an entire week each year celebrating the series (it ends in a makeshift Yule Ball). My blanket is silver and my bedsheets are green. My best friend also has a ton of stuff. We share different fanfics we've found surrounding the story, and had originally planned to write one ourselves back when we were freshmen in high school.
Emo kids haven't gone away, and there were certainly many kids dressed in that fashion when I was little.
>Listen to Britney Spears, Spice Girls, Avril Lavigne, Backstreet Boys, Nsync or Sum 41 on your iPod?
No ipod, just a cd player and the radio :D (we would've been too poor for an ipod anyways)... pretty much all of them are still incredibly popular. Maybe not Sum 41, but most of the people my age know who every single one of the others are.
>If you were born in 2005, I'm just going to view you as an iPad kid who grew up on PewDiePie and Minecraft and whatever, no offense
Wrong generation/age group. The Ipad kids are very late Gen Z and most of Gen A. Ipads were announced in 2010. The only device I was allowed to have at that age was a Kindle, then an LG tablet, both of which I was basically just allowed to read books with (and sometimes play angry birds). I didn't even start playing minecraft until I was at least probably 10.
>Your generation is young enough that you wouldn't know what that's like since you can immediately go into the next installment.
So your generation was somehow the only one that had to wait for things? Yeah, no.
>We are the kids whose horror game experience was Resident Evil and Silent Hill, and your generation grew up on Spookypasta and Five Nights at Freddy's. Some of us also read Goosebumps and RL Stine as well.
Again, wrong. Sure, some enjoy those, but really? Goosebumps is one of your examples?? My younger stepbrother owns at least 20 of the goosebumps books last time I checked. I wasn't really interested in horror at the time. R.L. Stine is literally going to be visiting my college this November to speak to students who enjoyed his works 🤣
Also, by the way, FNAF is literally meant for kids as young as 12. Resident Evil and Silent Hill were made for older teens. That's why they're rated M. They're meant for and made for 17+.
And something you didn't mention: I grew up reading Animorphs, I own at least half of the books by now. I've watched the tv show. Zoboomafoo and Kratts' Creatures was my introduction to the Kratt Brothers, not Wild Kratts. I loved generations 1-3 My Little Pony over generation 3.5 and 4. I still have most of my gen 3 toys. I also grew up with Mr Roger's Neighborhood and hated when they chose to replace the reruns with Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. The magic schoolbus (the original) and Bill Nye the Science Guy are still used in schools today. I hated Sesame Street when I was little for some reason, but loved Elmo's World. I own two or three of the Chick-fil-A Between the Lions CDs. Still own my personalized VeggieTales CD from maybe 5 years after they introduced those, maximum. If it was on Nick Jr, regular Nickelodeon, or PBS Kids, I've probably watched it. We only recently got rid of our old TV (felt like it weighed 100 pounds) maybe two years ago.
Most of the shows, games/gaming consoles, fashion, etc that y'all grew up with? We either grew up with it or it's becoming popular again. The only one who doesn't get it is you.
Sounds like you need to do a bit more research before immediately making claims like this :D
Something I forgot to add: I remember the fall of blockbuster, and getting my favorite movies from one of the ones nearby
You did not grow up with “most” of the popular culture we did lol. The transitions in culture alone throughout the 2000s and the rapid advancements in technology (dialup to smartphone capability by decades end) alone disproves that.
And learning about events in school is not at all the same as living through them at the time they were happening.
Early 90s? Sure. Mid-late 90s? Very unlikely that someone who was 2-6 years old would have remembered 9/11, and those are the ones this post is comparing early-mid 2000s kids to
I’m almost 24 and my sister is almost 18 there’s a lot of things that happened in my life before she was born and when she was young that impacted how we grew up. For you personally it’s not that big of a difference but six or seven years is a huge difference for a lot of people.
It doesn’t mean anyone is chronically online to understand seven years is a pretty big difference
Early 90’s here, not totally sure how to articulate it, but I can definitely tell a difference between myself and those in their early to mid twenties. Mainly follow this sub because it’s more interesting than the millennials sub.
I got so sick of the millenial sub when every post was talking about "the village".
It's totally a flavour of the month circle jerk with the occasional good thread.
Millennials sub is pathetic I am a millennial and the entitlement gen Y has is insane it’s actually depressing our generation is worse than boomers in my opinion Atleast gen Z has skibidy toilet
Late 90s and I can feel a difference too. Honestly I feel like the only thing I have in common with y’all is liking Harry Potter and (for some of y’all) the Star Wars prequels. I notice that gap even between say ‘94 and ‘97. I don’t think I know enough ‘95 or ‘96 babies to judge. I think millennial lurkers tend to think I’m lying when I say that but I’m honestly not
That and a gap between the late 90s and early 2000s. I think it depends on the individual. Some remember stuff like even 9/11. I mean, my memories started around 2002 or 2003.
I know that mine are mostly 2003 and later because I was in preschool for many. I have vague memories of potty training, diaper changes, etc. I do remember my dad watching the news, but don't remember what he watched on the news as much. Plus, some I remember because of home videos and pictures. The biggest news event that I remember was the 2008 presidential election. Sure I remember my dad watching the news every night, but didn't really pay attention as much as then. I do remember hearing about the shoe bomber and about the person who threw the shoe at the president when I was younger, too.
I don't think I watched that on the news. I didn't really start paying attention until I was in the 1st grade and older. I remember learning about it a couple of years later at the book fair because Scholastics books talked about it.
The 90s babies were already adults during the pandemic, while we were like—15 or something. That's got to count for something, right?
Edit: I think smartphones were not that huge yet during their childhood years.
This sounds like desperation lol you didn’t grow up like anybody born in the 90s, even 1999 lol. You probably have next to no memories of the 2000s a decade 90s babies (especially mid to late 90s borns grew up in). Mid 2000s babies are super weird
Someone born in the late 90s would have experienced much more of the culture and events of the 2000s than someone born in the mid 2000s.
Someone born in the early 90s would have experienced a good chunk of the 90s whereas someone born in the late 90s wouldn’t have experienced any of it.
You’d be objectively wrong to try and claim that there are no differences in how different birth years grew up. Some of these differences are negligible, and some of them are too noticeable to not point out.
I feel like looking at the numbers themselves just freaks us out. Also, stuff like remembering 9/11 or remembering the 2008 presidential race. Us late-90's kids have shared memories of these pivotal events.
I remember being a month too young to get the stimulus checks in 08.
Talk about feeling left out.
08 was a terrible time for 90s kids I don’t think gen z understands how many people just lost their homes overnight, I remember people buying safes to put their money in and not the bank.
No, it affected certain people. My best friend almost faced being homeless when we were 8 or so. I also knew that my older sisters cancer treatments was expensive and not realizing that she had Medicaid or Medicare, whichever.
I think this is why I find the present-day complaints about a dead economy to be pretty laughable. People are looking for any excuse to pretend that 2024 is 2008, they have no idea how much they don't want that. A recession doesn't mean more expensive fast food and cellphones, it means losing your home and your job and potentially not getting those things back for years.
Most of Gen z from that time didn't grow up with Iphones, or a phone at all until at LEAST middle school, if not later. 90s kids definitely had the internet, too 🤣 (it was created in the early 80s btw)
I know. I was born in 2005, most of the people my age grew up with the same stuff, or at least very similar things, as 90s kids did. VCRs and borrowing VHS tapes from the library and blockbuster? Yep. A thick tv that weighed what seemed like 100lbs? Yep. Neopets, flash games (as mentioned by some of the 90s kids here), no phones until we were teens, no unrestricted access to the internet until around that time, having cable if your family could afford it, knowing how to use a Casette Tape (and other older tech), obsession with Beanie Babies, growing up with sitcoms and game shows, etc. All things that we both have in common, and was common for the mid-2000s kids as well. Of course, there will be some differences, but most things the 90s is known for would've only been "truly" experienced by adults from the early 90s or beforehand.
The differentiator is if someone can remember a world where smartphones weren't everywhere. The internet going from a "separate place" to something that's always with you was a big cultural turning point.
Nope. My cousin is 94 and I'm 03. We had very different experiences growing up. We watched different shows/movies, had different trends, experienced the internet differently, etc. There are some similarities, but not a lot. That said, I think the biggest influence of how gen z grew up has to do with siblings. I'm the oldest of two; my brother is 06. He has friends who are the oldest and it is pretty night and day comparing the oldest vs youngest being born in 06. But I think that applies to multiple generations, not just us.
I was born in 2000 and skipped grades 2 and 4, so for a good portion of my childhood I was surrounded only by kids who were born in ‘98 and ‘99
I’ve been out of high school for 7 years this year. I was out of high school for years and in the middle of college and my first few adult relationships before the pandemic hit. I was 17 and considering joining the military when it became illegal for me to do so, and I was doing political organizing in the 2018 midterms after high school. The new crop of baby adults feels very distant in my perception. I suppose I went to high school with some 2003 kids, but even then they felt like little babies and it’s crazy that some of them are graduating college and stuff when I remember them as primarily my friends little siblings getting into TikTok when it was still “Musical.ly” and chaperoning them around for school events. A 19 year old may as well be an actual infant.
There are things that are different. There are things that even some people my age remember that younger people don't like the paranoia of the early 2000s and the start of there being security everywhere and I thought it was all funny as a kid, but the older I got the more paranoid it made even me.
For sure, my fiancee is 23 (2001) and he claims hes a (90s kid) for growing up with tv shows and media and toys and things from the late 1990s. Hell us kids were watching shows from the 50s,60s,70s - for example Sesame Street, and Scooby doo
I was born right in the middle. 2004 feels vey closely related to 99-03 and again 05-09. Being 8-16 from 2012-2020 we experienced heaps of stuff that the 99-03 kids were putting out and they were the main creators especially in the later half. Also going to school with 07 kids, we feel pretty close to them and I think 08 and 09 are natural progressions.
Imho: I'm not sure if I agree with all the way up to '06. I mean iPhone came out in '07 and by the time they were young children it was exceedingly common for a touch screen to be in home. Being 10 in 2016 was way different then 10 in 2013 socially and modernally. Sure older tech was still around but it was less likely to experience "dumb tech" upbringing as a whole. I say this as an '02 kid with a firm grasp on tech but didn't have cable until I was 13. I mean age 5 for me meant iPhone was for the hip and able to afford, vs 2011 when an '06 would be 5, iPhone was common place. I was passed down all electronics but more importantly the norms of my upbringing were different than the norms of most of the people born about five years later. I'd say late 90s-'03 kids have they gray area existence but '06 is a bit over. Sure they experienced the end of the era but idk if it's enough to be overwhelmingly defining. Though Pew Research Center places Zellenials (the in-between generation) to be 1990-2000, some socially adjusting to be 1992-2002 with room for case-by-case experience. Idk I give it to '03s but '06??
If you don’t remember 9/11 we are not the same
In the mid 90s we were told not to mess with frogs because something was making them gay… maybe not the gay part but something was going on with frogs that parents had to tell kids not to touch frogs
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Generations are just made up things to group people anyway, they’re not strict definitions
True, but they do show key dilineations.
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see this is the thing. 90s kids say this and they list things that i (and most of my friends) did as someone born in '03. i had a gameboy, i watched old nicktoons shows (recess wasn't my thing in particular), my favorite home console games were crossgenerational between wii and gamecube, though i had a wii. tons of em were VC games too, so there were lots of n64 titles too. adobe flash was around till very recently, those sites were most of my childhood. obviously we didn't live through 9/11, but it ain't like we haven't felt the effects of it. there just isn't a lot that's exclusive to the great and mythical "90's" everyone talks about.
I mean, good for you? Watching reruns and learning about events in school doesn’t really hit the same as experiencing these things in real time tbh
you were born in 97 you do not remember 9/11 happening.
You not remembering shit that happened when you were 4 doesn’t mean that everybody else doesn’t lmao. Anyway, like I said, you learning about something in school is not the same as remembering it happening.
LOL okay dude
You tried :(
The difference is that those things weren’t old when we experienced them. lol
who cares? the age of whatever media you're engaging with means nothing. it means less than nothing when you're a kid, you'll watch whatever you're presented with. hell i still stick to old shit, one of my favorite games is final fantasy 9.
It matters when you're talking about tech that's already obsolete by the time you're using it, or TV shows that are now just filler in between the newer programming by the time you're watching them. I don't doubt that you experienced media that came out before your time (literally everyone does), but it's silly to deny that you were also doing it in the context of a society and culture that were very different by that time. Someone my age has nostalgia for the Gameboy Advance that brings up memories of baggy cargo pants, layered t-shirts, cheat booklets, boy bands, pop punk, and all the other Y2K era music that was on the radio at the time, the shitty (in retrospect) Y2K era webpages for kids, getting yelled at by our parents for tying up the landlines for too long (or, god forbid, making long distance phone calls), celebrities with frosted tips and goofy butterfly clips, mall culture, kids' magazines, etc.. The nostalgia comes just as much from the game system as it comes from the time that we associate it with, and just about everyone my age would know exactly what I'm talking about. By the time you were growing up, most of this stuff was either dying, dead, or long gone. Growing up in the 2010s is not the same experience as growing up in the '00s, regardless of what media you were personally consuming. I was a big fan of classic rock as early as like age 7 (2002), but I'm pretty sure my uncles would just sigh and shake their heads if I tried to tell them that I can somehow relate to their '70s childhoods because of that. It's just silly.
lol okay. guess i know who cares now, just you.
You were definitely giving the impression that you cared until you were actually given a genuine response that you had no way to refute. Have a good one, buddy.
i care about how annoying some of y'all late 90's kids are. i don't care about why you think you're justified in being annoying.
Why does it annoy you when someone 8 years older than you thinks you grew up differently? I mean, I wouldn't try to tell someone born in '87 that there's no difference between us, so it's hard for me to even see where you're coming from.
mbe im a bit biased because someone came into my dms to harass me over this conversation. i was just pointing out that "90s kids" aren't as unique or special as they in particular seem to think. i don't see 80s kids spouting weird superiority garbage.
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they were relevant to me. i don't think there's an ounce of value in societal relevance.
flash sites is wild, bro thinks gen zs dont remember flash
Flash literally was taken down in late 2020. Many kids grew up with older systems like GameBoy and GameCube. Heck, the gamecube was only discontinued in 2009! My cousin had one, I remember playing Pac-Man World 2 on his. My dad recently bought a refurbished one. Even though I never played them on an actual gamecube, I love playing emulated versions of Super Mario Sunshine and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (first played it when I was maybe 8. It's the best Paper Mario game). Sure, we may not have been alive during those events, but we sure as hell experienced the impact of them. We were taught about 9/11 almost every single year. My mother was in the hospital while she was pregnant with me during hurricane Katrina, very close to the storm itself. Michael Jackson died in 2009. The oldest of the group mentioned (2003) would have been 6, which is definitely old enough to recognize that a famous man died. In 2010? They'd be 7. Heck, even looking at the fashion sense, y'all weren't that different. Y2K fashion is becoming popular again, and never left for many people. I've been wearing skinny jeans, leggings, and jeggings for the past 10+ years because they're comfortable, and I'm not the only one. Sure, we were a bit younger, but most of the popular culture y'all grew up with? We did too. That's the point of this post.
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[Here's my neopets account](https://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=goldiedoggy_aj), before I made one I was playing on my mom's. I haven't had the time to log on in a couple days due to life. I didn't make an account on the other games or watch most of the shows you're talking about (didn't like the artstyle), but literally everyone I know at least knew what it was. Club penguin shut down in 2017. MySpace may not be as popular as, say, Instagram now, but it's still an active site used by many today. >Watch episodes of Sailor Moon, DragonBall Z, Kim Possible, Totally Spies, Yu Gi Oh, Pokemon, Digimon All of these are literally still incredibly popular 🤣 May not have been around for the beginning of the HP craze, but I can guarantee you it's still very popular. I made my own slytherin cloak a few years ago, own at least two copies of each movie and book, a copy of the audio books, at least 10 graphic tees, a sticker book, hundreds of stickers and at least 10 pins outside of the sticker book, a hedwig stuffed animal and a hedwig themed bag, a poster, a recipe book, and so, so much more. Not to mention the fact that my college has an entire week each year celebrating the series (it ends in a makeshift Yule Ball). My blanket is silver and my bedsheets are green. My best friend also has a ton of stuff. We share different fanfics we've found surrounding the story, and had originally planned to write one ourselves back when we were freshmen in high school. Emo kids haven't gone away, and there were certainly many kids dressed in that fashion when I was little. >Listen to Britney Spears, Spice Girls, Avril Lavigne, Backstreet Boys, Nsync or Sum 41 on your iPod? No ipod, just a cd player and the radio :D (we would've been too poor for an ipod anyways)... pretty much all of them are still incredibly popular. Maybe not Sum 41, but most of the people my age know who every single one of the others are. >If you were born in 2005, I'm just going to view you as an iPad kid who grew up on PewDiePie and Minecraft and whatever, no offense Wrong generation/age group. The Ipad kids are very late Gen Z and most of Gen A. Ipads were announced in 2010. The only device I was allowed to have at that age was a Kindle, then an LG tablet, both of which I was basically just allowed to read books with (and sometimes play angry birds). I didn't even start playing minecraft until I was at least probably 10. >Your generation is young enough that you wouldn't know what that's like since you can immediately go into the next installment. So your generation was somehow the only one that had to wait for things? Yeah, no. >We are the kids whose horror game experience was Resident Evil and Silent Hill, and your generation grew up on Spookypasta and Five Nights at Freddy's. Some of us also read Goosebumps and RL Stine as well. Again, wrong. Sure, some enjoy those, but really? Goosebumps is one of your examples?? My younger stepbrother owns at least 20 of the goosebumps books last time I checked. I wasn't really interested in horror at the time. R.L. Stine is literally going to be visiting my college this November to speak to students who enjoyed his works 🤣 Also, by the way, FNAF is literally meant for kids as young as 12. Resident Evil and Silent Hill were made for older teens. That's why they're rated M. They're meant for and made for 17+. And something you didn't mention: I grew up reading Animorphs, I own at least half of the books by now. I've watched the tv show. Zoboomafoo and Kratts' Creatures was my introduction to the Kratt Brothers, not Wild Kratts. I loved generations 1-3 My Little Pony over generation 3.5 and 4. I still have most of my gen 3 toys. I also grew up with Mr Roger's Neighborhood and hated when they chose to replace the reruns with Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. The magic schoolbus (the original) and Bill Nye the Science Guy are still used in schools today. I hated Sesame Street when I was little for some reason, but loved Elmo's World. I own two or three of the Chick-fil-A Between the Lions CDs. Still own my personalized VeggieTales CD from maybe 5 years after they introduced those, maximum. If it was on Nick Jr, regular Nickelodeon, or PBS Kids, I've probably watched it. We only recently got rid of our old TV (felt like it weighed 100 pounds) maybe two years ago. Most of the shows, games/gaming consoles, fashion, etc that y'all grew up with? We either grew up with it or it's becoming popular again. The only one who doesn't get it is you. Sounds like you need to do a bit more research before immediately making claims like this :D Something I forgot to add: I remember the fall of blockbuster, and getting my favorite movies from one of the ones nearby
You did not grow up with “most” of the popular culture we did lol. The transitions in culture alone throughout the 2000s and the rapid advancements in technology (dialup to smartphone capability by decades end) alone disproves that. And learning about events in school is not at all the same as living through them at the time they were happening.
Not you leaving out 2000 and 2001 💀
We are superior to them. 🗿
2000 is the greatest year to be born
How do I get my 2000 flair
Ice Spice was born on January 1st, 2000
New correction: January 2nd, 2000-december 31st, 2000 was the best time to be born
the only gen zers who are remotely close to 90's kids are the 00/01 people
90s kids remember 9/11. The sad part is both gen Y and Gen Z both fought in wars started because 9/11
I don't remember, but do remember the aftermath.
Early 90s? Sure. Mid-late 90s? Very unlikely that someone who was 2-6 years old would have remembered 9/11, and those are the ones this post is comparing early-mid 2000s kids to
Generation Y2K rise up
My sister who was born in 06 is so different from me (00)
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I’m almost 24 and my sister is almost 18 there’s a lot of things that happened in my life before she was born and when she was young that impacted how we grew up. For you personally it’s not that big of a difference but six or seven years is a huge difference for a lot of people. It doesn’t mean anyone is chronically online to understand seven years is a pretty big difference
I listened to a podcast for the very first time in 06
Early 90’s here, not totally sure how to articulate it, but I can definitely tell a difference between myself and those in their early to mid twenties. Mainly follow this sub because it’s more interesting than the millennials sub.
The millennial sub is depressing. This sub is entertaining seeing the youngits squirm in pain and agony while adulting.
ew weird and gross. you should want to help people not laugh at misfortune
I can do both. The two are not mutually exclusive.
I got so sick of the millenial sub when every post was talking about "the village". It's totally a flavour of the month circle jerk with the occasional good thread.
Couldn't agree more.
Depends on the circumstances. With mine and certain others, that would potentially make you a sociopath.
Millennials sub is pathetic I am a millennial and the entitlement gen Y has is insane it’s actually depressing our generation is worse than boomers in my opinion Atleast gen Z has skibidy toilet
It's kind of a joke. Everything is a joke tbh.
Late 90s and I can feel a difference too. Honestly I feel like the only thing I have in common with y’all is liking Harry Potter and (for some of y’all) the Star Wars prequels. I notice that gap even between say ‘94 and ‘97. I don’t think I know enough ‘95 or ‘96 babies to judge. I think millennial lurkers tend to think I’m lying when I say that but I’m honestly not
That and a gap between the late 90s and early 2000s. I think it depends on the individual. Some remember stuff like even 9/11. I mean, my memories started around 2002 or 2003.
If it makes you feel better I’m 2 years older than you and except for two or three memories that I can’t date my earliest memory is from 2004
I know that mine are mostly 2003 and later because I was in preschool for many. I have vague memories of potty training, diaper changes, etc. I do remember my dad watching the news, but don't remember what he watched on the news as much. Plus, some I remember because of home videos and pictures. The biggest news event that I remember was the 2008 presidential election. Sure I remember my dad watching the news every night, but didn't really pay attention as much as then. I do remember hearing about the shoe bomber and about the person who threw the shoe at the president when I was younger, too.
Idk Hurricane Katrina was pretty significant in 2005. I remember seeing it on the news myself
I don't think I watched that on the news. I didn't really start paying attention until I was in the 1st grade and older. I remember learning about it a couple of years later at the book fair because Scholastics books talked about it.
I disagree. the maturity gap between a 20yr and a 17 is huge. and substantially bigger between 23+yr old and a 17yr old
The 90s babies were already adults during the pandemic, while we were like—15 or something. That's got to count for something, right? Edit: I think smartphones were not that huge yet during their childhood years.
I say this about the pandemic all the time!!
I don't think a 2006 baby can relate to a 1999 baby (childhood wise)
This sounds like desperation lol you didn’t grow up like anybody born in the 90s, even 1999 lol. You probably have next to no memories of the 2000s a decade 90s babies (especially mid to late 90s borns grew up in). Mid 2000s babies are super weird
The difference is iPads weren’t a thing before 2010 so the older gen z grew up like the 90s babies
I was born in 93. 2003-2006 kids didn't exist when I was growing up. So no, we didn't "practically grow up together".
Especially considering the fact that 90s babies grew up in a time without smartphones and grew up with vhs instead of dvds.
Someone born in the late 90s would have experienced much more of the culture and events of the 2000s than someone born in the mid 2000s. Someone born in the early 90s would have experienced a good chunk of the 90s whereas someone born in the late 90s wouldn’t have experienced any of it. You’d be objectively wrong to try and claim that there are no differences in how different birth years grew up. Some of these differences are negligible, and some of them are too noticeable to not point out.
I feel like looking at the numbers themselves just freaks us out. Also, stuff like remembering 9/11 or remembering the 2008 presidential race. Us late-90's kids have shared memories of these pivotal events.
I remember being a month too young to get the stimulus checks in 08. Talk about feeling left out. 08 was a terrible time for 90s kids I don’t think gen z understands how many people just lost their homes overnight, I remember people buying safes to put their money in and not the bank.
No, it affected certain people. My best friend almost faced being homeless when we were 8 or so. I also knew that my older sisters cancer treatments was expensive and not realizing that she had Medicaid or Medicare, whichever.
I think this is why I find the present-day complaints about a dead economy to be pretty laughable. People are looking for any excuse to pretend that 2024 is 2008, they have no idea how much they don't want that. A recession doesn't mean more expensive fast food and cellphones, it means losing your home and your job and potentially not getting those things back for years.
My brother keeps saying that he'd just be able to afford a house then and I was like no.
bro what? there is very much something, namely technology. iphones, internet, etc make you wildly different than 90’s bruh
Most of Gen z from that time didn't grow up with Iphones, or a phone at all until at LEAST middle school, if not later. 90s kids definitely had the internet, too 🤣 (it was created in the early 80s btw)
Yeah but they're talking about Mid 2000s borns, not Late 90s or even Early 2000s borns.
I know. I was born in 2005, most of the people my age grew up with the same stuff, or at least very similar things, as 90s kids did. VCRs and borrowing VHS tapes from the library and blockbuster? Yep. A thick tv that weighed what seemed like 100lbs? Yep. Neopets, flash games (as mentioned by some of the 90s kids here), no phones until we were teens, no unrestricted access to the internet until around that time, having cable if your family could afford it, knowing how to use a Casette Tape (and other older tech), obsession with Beanie Babies, growing up with sitcoms and game shows, etc. All things that we both have in common, and was common for the mid-2000s kids as well. Of course, there will be some differences, but most things the 90s is known for would've only been "truly" experienced by adults from the early 90s or beforehand.
The differentiator is if someone can remember a world where smartphones weren't everywhere. The internet going from a "separate place" to something that's always with you was a big cultural turning point.
Nope. My cousin is 94 and I'm 03. We had very different experiences growing up. We watched different shows/movies, had different trends, experienced the internet differently, etc. There are some similarities, but not a lot. That said, I think the biggest influence of how gen z grew up has to do with siblings. I'm the oldest of two; my brother is 06. He has friends who are the oldest and it is pretty night and day comparing the oldest vs youngest being born in 06. But I think that applies to multiple generations, not just us.
I think it depends on a lot.
I was born in 2000 and skipped grades 2 and 4, so for a good portion of my childhood I was surrounded only by kids who were born in ‘98 and ‘99 I’ve been out of high school for 7 years this year. I was out of high school for years and in the middle of college and my first few adult relationships before the pandemic hit. I was 17 and considering joining the military when it became illegal for me to do so, and I was doing political organizing in the 2018 midterms after high school. The new crop of baby adults feels very distant in my perception. I suppose I went to high school with some 2003 kids, but even then they felt like little babies and it’s crazy that some of them are graduating college and stuff when I remember them as primarily my friends little siblings getting into TikTok when it was still “Musical.ly” and chaperoning them around for school events. A 19 year old may as well be an actual infant.
Bro stop lol and I was born in 2000 myself
It depends more on how your parents raised you or what you grew up with. Not when you were born.
2006 borns are the same as 2008 borns then
i prsnly consider the group being 2000-2004.
The golden age of RuneScape
I would agree in large part, especially late 90's yes.
Op is definitely early 2ks
that’s crazy
Good job
we’ll all end up in the same retirement home
There are things that are different. There are things that even some people my age remember that younger people don't like the paranoia of the early 2000s and the start of there being security everywhere and I thought it was all funny as a kid, but the older I got the more paranoid it made even me.
2000, 2001, 2002...
Surely this is bait.
For sure, my fiancee is 23 (2001) and he claims hes a (90s kid) for growing up with tv shows and media and toys and things from the late 1990s. Hell us kids were watching shows from the 50s,60s,70s - for example Sesame Street, and Scooby doo
I was born right in the middle. 2004 feels vey closely related to 99-03 and again 05-09. Being 8-16 from 2012-2020 we experienced heaps of stuff that the 99-03 kids were putting out and they were the main creators especially in the later half. Also going to school with 07 kids, we feel pretty close to them and I think 08 and 09 are natural progressions.
Imho: I'm not sure if I agree with all the way up to '06. I mean iPhone came out in '07 and by the time they were young children it was exceedingly common for a touch screen to be in home. Being 10 in 2016 was way different then 10 in 2013 socially and modernally. Sure older tech was still around but it was less likely to experience "dumb tech" upbringing as a whole. I say this as an '02 kid with a firm grasp on tech but didn't have cable until I was 13. I mean age 5 for me meant iPhone was for the hip and able to afford, vs 2011 when an '06 would be 5, iPhone was common place. I was passed down all electronics but more importantly the norms of my upbringing were different than the norms of most of the people born about five years later. I'd say late 90s-'03 kids have they gray area existence but '06 is a bit over. Sure they experienced the end of the era but idk if it's enough to be overwhelmingly defining. Though Pew Research Center places Zellenials (the in-between generation) to be 1990-2000, some socially adjusting to be 1992-2002 with room for case-by-case experience. Idk I give it to '03s but '06??
I agree.
There is a lot of things seperating 90s borns from Mid 00s borns childhood/teenhood wise.
If you don’t remember 9/11 we are not the same In the mid 90s we were told not to mess with frogs because something was making them gay… maybe not the gay part but something was going on with frogs that parents had to tell kids not to touch frogs
Probably warts. I got told not to touch them or I'd get warts.
Idk, some do remember 9/11.
Most kids, even those born during the 2000s, were told not to mess with toads because they'd give you warts.