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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, this thread is messed up and people's memories are warped.

No one was distraught by the Challenger Explosion!

The pill was invented in the mid 1970s, and no one was sexually promiscuous in high school!

The Breakfast Club was not a Gen X movie!

No one knew who Curt Kobain was!

WOW.[/quote]

I’m born in 1977. Generation X.

I recall watching the challenger space shuttle in third grade with the entire grade. All 3 classes on the one tv that the grade shared. It was a big deal because a teacher was on board. I remember it exploding. I remember kids and teachers crying.

Breakfast club is the quintessential generation x movie although I didn’t see it until I was a freshman in college a decade later. It was nostalgic.

I was not a stoner but I was in late high school when he died. It was a major deal to every stoner that I knew. So much so that I remember that.

Borth control I don’t remember. But I’m a guy. And gay. Birth control was not something on my radar.

Other events I remember:  
yitzchak rabin assasination
Rodney king riots
OJ Simpson bronco chase and trial
Berlin Wall
AIDS

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I was born in 1981 and have a similar list despite technically being a millennial.  My kindergarten class was watching the Challenger when it exploded.  My friends and I loved watching Breakfast Club in high school.  I remember the AIDS crisis, Clinton impeachment, OJ's white Ford bronco, and the Berlin wall coming down.

I was in college for 9/11.

The weird part about being considered a millennial is that I didn't get my first cell phone until after college.  I also used the yellow pages to find a plumber, etc, navigated with actual maps for about a decade until GPS, and had to go to a bank to check my balance.  I studied abroad without a cell phone and had to go to Internet cafe to send an email home.  My siblings are also millennials and they can't remember life before cell phones, GPS directions, and email. They are used to always calling my parents when they have a question or need help.  That is a pretty big gap in life experience.

I'm not a GenXer, but find I really don't fit with most millennials either.[/quote]

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