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Originally Posted by tvp2003
I came across a new word/concept this past week: xennials
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
I'm guessing there are a few of us on CP that fit into this "category" -- not quite a generation Xer and not quite a millennial. it's been described as having an "analog childhood, digital adulthood" where you grew up without social media but were still young enough that when the digital era hit you were able to adapt and not be left completely in the dust.
You also might be a xennial if you grew up reading the newspaper, calling friends using landlines (and having their parents pick up), and then entered the working world by searching online job postings. You may have rocked a Walkman as a kid before saving up enough money to afford a Discman; then ditching both when you could download everything through Napster.
To put a Flames spin on it, you would have been young enough to hate Gretzky and the Oilers, win a Cup in 1989 without realizing how monumental it was, have the heartbreak of 1990 to 1994 harden you as an adolescent Flames fan, and then party on the red mile as a young adult (age 21 to 27) in 2004.
Related articles for your Friday:
https://www.mamamia.com.au/xennial-generation/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-...94890116328538 |
I'm not part of that generation but experienced everything in that list as a damn as a young adult
Chances are that generation was still applying for jobs out of the classified ads section of the papers. Yup there were walkmans that went to PCD, but remember that generation would have still had boom boxes and cassettes.
i honestly don't remember much about winning the cup, because I was completely loaded. I got kicked out of two bars on electric avenue for buying and handing beers out to people on the street. Got into a scrap with an idiot, and pretty much blacked out my memory before Lanny's goal.