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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids lump anyone born pre 2000 as old as dirt.

Remember 1990s, 2000s and 2010s are three oldies channel on my XM radio.

Gen X gets lost as accomplished zero. I think Gen Z has much more on common with Boomers than the other two groups. , [/quote]

Amazon was made by a GenXer.

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Social media was invented by Gen Xers.[/quote]

Not really. Instagram and Facebook were both invented by Millenials. Twitter founder was GenX.[/quote]
1973: Talkomatic is created by Dave Wooly and Douglas Brown at the University of Illinois. It was a multi-user chat room with limited features. 
1997: Andrew Weinreich created SixDegrees.com.
1997:  Barry Appelman, Eric Bosco, and Jerry Harris created AOL instant messenger.
1999: Jerry Yang and David Filo established Yahoo! Messenger.
1999: Microsoft creates MSN Messenger to offer new features like video calling.
1999: Brad Fitzpatrick created LiveJournal; a platform for blogging.
2001: SixDegrees.com shuts down.
2001: Windows Messenger, the integrated version of MSN Messenger is out.
2002: Friendster is born; a place for gaming and social networking. it’s a brainchild of Jonathan Abrams. 
2003: Reid Hoffman and some of his coworkers introduce LinkedIn.
2003: Thomas Anderson founds Myspace.
2003: Niklas Zennström and the Dane create Janus Friis Skype.
2004: Mark Zuckerberg starts the legendary Facebook. 
2005: Aaron Swartz introduces Reddit. 
2006: Twitter is out. Jack Dorsey founds this platform.[/quote]

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