The generations go like this. It's based on an 18 year cycle. The number of years it takes for a person to grow up and have their first kids. The boomer generation was started with all the soldiers returning home from war, starting up jobs and families. I was born at the tail-end of the Boomers so I have many qualities of both that and Gex-X. My mother, born close to the demarcation between the Silent and the Boomers has all that frugality and saving (clipping coupons) and financial worries that are prevalent in the those people (who lived through the depression, mostly) but for a little while she crossed over for a few years and we lived in a vegetarian, mostly nude, commune. I witnessed all of the Love generation and saw it's good and bad.
So far we have this:
| Builders (1908-1926) | Silent (1927-1946) | Boomers (1946-1964) | Generation X (1965-1983) | The Millennial Generation (1984-2004) | |
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| The greatest generation | The sandwich generation | The love generation | Slackers | Google generation | The gamers generation |
| The dying generation | The Depression generation | The me generation | The twenty/thirty somethings | The MySpace generation | The internet generation |
| The beat generation | Regan generation | Trailing-edge boomers | The generation after | The MyPod generation | Zeds/Zees |
| The booster generation | The beatniks | Leading-edge boomers | iGeneration | New silent generation | |
| The war generation | The hippies | The gap generation | Spoiled generation | The corporation generation | |
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The hero generation The seniors |
The lost generation Breakthrough generation |
The latchkey kids
Generation X men/women |
The connected generation WHY generation Generation whY |
Generation vista The neo-Disney generation
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