Wikipedia graph for generational spans over time (upload.wikimedia.org)

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Not the prettiest graph, but a neat way of putting all this information into one image.

Wiki Commons page: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Generation_timeline.svg#mw-jump-to-license

Wikipedia page on Generations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation

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[-] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

Isn't it a bit arbitrary to just divide time into generations like this? It makes more sense for big events in history, like the world wars, but now, I don't know. According to this I am a millennial, but what does that mean really? That I saw the internet become what it is now? Not a very defining thing for a whole generation imho.

[-] FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, incredibly arbitrary, and yet that doesn't stop people immediately grabbing on to them for whatever tribalism they want to justify. The "baby boom" was a notable thing where suddenly there were a lot of post-war births, the rest is at best some vague suggestions that these people sort of behave similarly because of similar geopolitical conditions.

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