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by jart 1793 days ago
It's the greatest generation. I wish Wikipedia would call it Oregon Trail Generation rather than Xennial, since the latter sounds hideous like a Xenomorph or something.
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>It's the greatest generation

Sorry, that’s already taken: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation

I think we were a very fortunate generation. Got exposure to GenX culture at a young age (which was transformative in the early 90’s) but also were just old enough by the mid 90’s to enjoy that bubble and then get into the job world right as Web 2.0 began.

Were young enough to not be too affected by the financial crisis like GenX and old enough to ride the wave afterwards, which many millennials were still a bit too young for.

Last generation to have affordable college.

I think being such a small generation opened a lot of opportunities and options to be more ahead than GenX and Millenial.

Well, "Oregon Trail Generation" doesn't sound like anything to people from outside US of A :).
All of these "generations" are based on the USA anyway, so they might as well stick with Oregon Trail Generation if that is a concern.
That would be much better. Otherwise, I'd rather stick with Gen X than Xennial as Millennial has so many negative connotations these days.